Difference between revisions of "Video Driver and OpenGL Troubleshooting in Linux"

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Why mesa-utils and what is mesa?  Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL.  The OpenGL libGL.so comes with your driver. 
  
 
What is your video card
 
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To upgrade to a newer version of OpenGL you will have to update the graphic card driver.  The graphics chip AND corresponding driver will provide higher possible OpenGL support.
  
 
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Revision as of 19:49, 17 November 2020

Determine OpenGL version

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

glxgears is a simple utility to test 3D Acceleration

sudo apt install mesa-utils
glxgears

Why mesa-utils and what is mesa? Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL. The OpenGL libGL.so comes with your driver.

What is your video card

lspci
lspci|grep -i vga

To upgrade to a newer version of OpenGL you will have to update the graphic card driver. The graphics chip AND corresponding driver will provide higher possible OpenGL support.