Upgrade OpenGL

A piece of hardware is either capable of rendering a particular version of OpenGL or not; there's no way to get hardware support for a higher version of OpenGL without upgrading the hardware itself. It's possible that your drivers don't use the full capability of your hardware, however. To find out what your hardware really supports, we have to know what kind of hardware you have. Could you run "lspci -v|grep VGA" and paste the result in here?

Hi, thanks for your time.

This is what you told me:

dartax@olidartax:~$ lspci -v|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
dartax@olidartax:~$

According to the table on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Table_of_GMA_graphics_cores_and_chipsets ), your graphics core should support OpenGL 1.4. (I have a similar one.) But my drivers currently only support 1.3. On my system:

$ lspci -v|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
$ glxinfo |egrep "OpenGL .* string"
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM 20061017 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1

That should at least tell you what your drivers support. I can't find any information on what the newer "intel" driver supports (as opposed to the older "i810" driver I have); you might want to try installing xserver-xorg-video-intel and trying that driver, if you're not already. I think it's experimental, though, so your mileage may vary.

Thank you, adam!

I needed it because I think this is the cause of looking glass don't works.