Re: [Mesa3d-users] i915 chipset information issue

[Jin, G. <gor...@in...>]

vivek vyas wrote on Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:14 AM:
> i gone to intel's i915 website
> http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915g/sb/CS-011906.htm 
> 
> and find following lines
> The latest version of OpenGL currently supported by the Intel(r)
> Graphics Media Accelerator drivers is OpenGL 1.4 plus extensions.
> Drivers that come with Windows* or that are downloaded from Windows
> Update* typically do not support OpenGL. and when i go to infocenter
> of my Suse 11.0   
> it tells
> vendor                                                     Tungsten
> Graphics,Inc 
> Renderer                                                  Mesa DRI
> Intel(R) 915GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2 
> OpenGL Version                                       1.3 Mesa 7.0.3
> Kernel Module                                           i915
> My question are
> Q is Windows use higher version of OpenGL then the Linux
>    or this Driver have issue
>    or OpenGL 1.4 == 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3?

That's because you are running an old Linux driver.
Running with mesa master branch tells:

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM GEM 20090114 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.6-devel

> Q what is Minimum version of OpenGL for GLSL job?

GLSL requires OpenGL 2.0, which are supported on i965 (including G35 and 4 series).

Gordon