Haha funny i wondered this same thing recently when trying to upgrade to 3.3+ on open drivers for an OpenGL course.<div><br></div><div>I would love to know more about the work needed to be done to reach this version.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe you should put up some kind of summary page of the current status + roadmap, or just a list of bugs/tasks that have to be done, </div><div>i would love to contribute wherever i can.</div><div><br>
</div><div>I'm skilled in C++ and OpenGL, but not really firmiliar with inner workings of mesa.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Slavko</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Matthew Eggers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggmatters@gmail.com" target="_blank">eggmatters@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br><br>I apologize in advance for the simplistic question. I've searched every avenue I can find and haven't been able to resolver this issue.<br>
<br>I recently attempted to upgrade my installed instance of Mesa & OpenGL as my chipset is completely capable of running GLSL and GL versions 3 and above.<br>
<br>I followed the steps in <a href="http://feedesktop.x.org" target="_blank">feedesktop.x.org</a>'s Modular Developers guide. the <a href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide" target="_blank">http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide</a><br>
<br>Once finished, I was surprised to see my OpenGL version and GLSL versions <i>still</i> at 1.2 and 2.1 respectively.<br><br>The graphical data for my system is:<br>2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)<br>
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz<br>cpu MHz : 2301.000<br>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz<br>cpu MHz : 800.000<br>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz<br>
cpu MHz : 800.000<br>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz<br>cpu MHz : 2300.000<br>X.Org version: 1.13.99<br> dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)<br> depth of root window: 24 planes<br>
<br>direct rendering: Yes<br>server glx vendor string: SGI<br>server glx version string: 1.4<br>--<br>OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project<br>OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer<br><b>OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.1-devel (git-037b4f8)</b><br>
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20<br><br>Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64<br><br>The GPU referenced from lslci above is:<br>Sandybridge Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000 <i>(used in 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processor family)</i><br>
<br>Which I understand to be driven by an i915 intel graphics driver.<br><br>Please let me know if you need any other data or information.<br><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Slavko Glamočanin<br><a href="http://naprave.net">http://naprave.net</a><br>GSM: 0038631847589<br>
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