[Mesa-users] version string for OpenGL not correct?

[andrew henry]

On 11/08/15 20:41, Benjamin Bellec wrote:
> Indeed, I also got the Steam crash. I guess Steam doesn't expect to see
> a "core profile" string in the string it is parsing. Steam only/always
> reports the Compatibility profile, I don't know why. You can check in
> the Steam menu "Help" > "System info".
> 
> Anyway, I browsed the Mesa source code and saw an undocumented override
> option :
> $ MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3*COMPAT* glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
> OpenGL version string: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-013d731)
> 
> And so Steam worked too :
> $ MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3COMPAT steam

That did the trick!  Thanks a lot for your help Benjamin :).  It no
longer complains about OpenGL and starts to load... unfortunately, it
doesn't make it all the way, but that's an issue unrelated to graphics
cards and requires more googling. :/

Thanks,
Andrew