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Asked: 2026-06-12T02:14:02+00:00

Basing from the above image, is the max version of Opengl my computer can

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Basing from the above image, is the max version of Opengl my computer can support is 1.4? does that mean that there’s no way I can write code with Opengl 2.1?

I’m using Ubuntu 12.04

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    What you see there is the GLX version. GLX is the container protocol, that delivers OpenGL to the X11 server. You should look for the OpenGL version string, which comes a bit later in that output. Use grep to filter the output, e.g. on my laptop

    datenwolf@narfi ~ 
%> glxinfo | grep version
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

    As you can see, my GLX version is 1.4 as well, but I have OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.20 support on my mobile machine.

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