OpenGL update

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#1

Hi folks,

Well I was trying dolphin emulator on my HP MINI 210 (openSUSE 13.2) but it didn’t work in launching a ROM :

GPU: OGL ERROR: Need GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object.
GPU: Does your video card support OpenGL 3.1?
(...)
Debug info (Intel Open Source Technology Center, Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD , 2.1 Mesa 10.3.7):
0:1(10): error: GLSL 1.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, and 1.00 ES

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology CenterOpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD 
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.7
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 10.3.7
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

**
ldconfig -p | grep GL**

        libQt5OpenGL.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libQt5OpenGL.so.5        
        libQtOpenGL.so.4 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libQtOpenGL.so.4
        libQtGLib-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libQtGLib-2.0.so.0
        libGLU.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1
        libGLEWmx.so.1.10 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libGLEWmx.so.1.10
        libGLEW.so.1.10 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.1.10
        libGLESv2.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libGLESv2.so.2
        libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
        libEGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libEGL.so.1

my modest HP MINI’s got only this :

lspci -nn | grep -i display00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012] (rev 02)

Is there any way to update it’s OpenGL however ? Thanks in advance for your distinguished opinions :wink:
Best,

#2

Here, oS 13.2 64-bit, I have:

OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.65
...
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES **3.1** NVIDIA 340.65 340.65
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES **3.10**

So my openGL supplier is the driver vendor. I guess you should check for updated driver for your Graphics controller.

Perhaps you’ll find it in the X11 OBS repo (64-bit, right?):

https://software.opensuse.org/ymp/X11:XOrg/openSUSE_13.2/

Just guessing, however. I’ve no idea were intel graphic drivers updates live.

#3

Intel graphic are in the kernel so only kernel updates will update driver.

#4

That’s not completely true though.

There’s also the Xorg driver that is in the package xf86-video-intel, and the 3D/OpenGL driver is part of Mesa.

You’d need to update the whole XOrg stack though (the latest versions are available in the [noparse]X11:XOrg[/noparse] repo as mentioned, do a full switch to the repo to avoid incompatible versions, a newer kernel might be required as well though), and even then it probably would still only support OpenGL 2.1 for your GPU I suppose.

Another option would be to install an older dolphin version. There was a similar thread already some time ago with an exact instruction on how to do that, but I somehow cannot find it at the moment…

#5

Thank you for yours answers !!
I didn’t fin neither the instructions for xorg update nor an older version compatible with openSUSE 13.2, so if someone has one of those it would be great :wink: Thanx again!
Best,

#6

Well, I had a closer look, and your CPU has a built-in GMA 3150 GPU which just doesn’t support OpenGL 3.1, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA_3150#GMA_3150:

GMA 3150Found in Intel Atom N4xx, N5xx (codenamed Pineview) processors. Like GMA 3100 and GMA 3000, this is a very close relative of the GMA900/950, completely different from the GMA X3000 series. Supports up to 384 MB video memory, DirectX 9, Shader Model 3.0, OpenGL 1.5 with Microsoft Windows and OpenGL 2.0 with Linux.

So I don’t see any point at all in trying to upgrade Xorg/Mesa (as I already suspected). You’d need to upgrade the hardware, not the software.

nor an older version compatible with openSUSE 13.2, so if someone has one of those it would be great :wink:

An older package is available for 13.1 on OBS, but that probably won’t work just like that on 13.2 because of the dependencies.
As mentioned, I do remember a thread where somebody with the same “problem” exactly described what packages he installed from where to get a working dolphin emulator (an older version that still works fine with OpenGL 2 only) on 13.2 (IIRC).

I’ll have a look if I can find that thread, it’s been a few months.