[Nouveau] glx error with nouveau

[Ilia Mirkin]

BTW, note that mesa-based drivers don't support above GL 3.0 for
compatibility contexts on any hardware. Most reasonable software that
requires advanced functionality uses core contexts though.

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Depends on the hardware. You may be interested in looking at
> https://people.freedesktop.org/~imirkin/glxinfo/ for specifics.
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Su, Yunde <su.526 at buckeyemail.osu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi IIia,
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>> Does the distro released more recently than Dec 2009 support OPENGL 3.3 ?
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Yunde
>>
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>> From: ibmirkin at gmail.com <ibmirkin at gmail.com> on behalf of Ilia Mirkin
>> <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 6:27:43 PM
>> To: Su, Yunde
>> Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: Re: [Nouveau] glx error with nouveau
>>
>> Nouveau was merged upstream into the kernel in 2.6.35 or so. The
>> 2.6.32-based system you have is a franken-kernel maintained by RedHat.
>> You should go to them for support.
>>
>> I'd recommend trying a distro based on a kernel that was released more
>> recently than Dec 2009.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Su, Yunde <su.526 at buckeyemail.osu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>> My laptop has Nouveau installed as the graphic driver. The version is
>>> 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64. And when I tried to run a software(CONVERGE
>>> STUDIO), I find such errors:
>>>
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> QGLTempContext: No GL capable X visuals available.
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you give some suggestions on how to solve this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and best wishes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Yunde
>>>
>>>
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