[PyOpenGL-Users] Shader problems

[Tim B. <tim...@gm...>]

Using Kubuntu Intrepid (8.10), PyOpenGL 3.0b6, proprietary nvidia
drivers (though I'm not sure what specific card is in this computer).
I am trying to get shaders to work using PyOpenGL, but calling

glCreateShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER) produces the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./main.py", line 154, in <module>
    testShader = shader.FragmentShader("testShader.glsl")
  File "/home/rya/hw3/shader.py", line 11, in __init__
    self.__shader = glCreateShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0b6-py2.5.egg/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py",
line 280, in __call__
    self.__name__, self.__name__,
OpenGL.error.NullFunctionError: Attempt to call an undefined function
glCreateShader, check for bool(glCreateShader) before calling

Does this mean that my video card and/or opengl install does not
support shaders?  If that's not what this means, then what could be
going on?

Thanks!