[Paraview-developers] ParaView 5.0, Mesa 11.0.4, giving OGL version as 3.0

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Alan.

I believe you are pointing to MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE environment
variable. you can set it to 3.2. 3.2 is what we need for OpenGL2 backend.

- aashish

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:

> Mesa supports OpenGL version 4.1 IIRC but I believe Mesa supports multiple
> drivers under the hood and it sounds like the currently selected driver for
> you is reporting OpenGL 3.0. I’m not sure if that means it really only
> supports 3.0 or is just reporting 3.0 for legacy reasons. Looking at
> http://mesamatrix.net/ it seems like all the listed drivers support
> OpenGL 3.2. I would say try the override and see if PV works with it.
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> *From:* Paraview-developers [mailto:
> paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Scott, W Alan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:46 PM
> *To:* paraview-developers at paraview.org
> *Subject:* [Paraview-developers] ParaView 5.0, Mesa 11.0.4, giving OGL
> version as 3.0
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> Mesa 11.0.4 only returns version 3.0 by default.  ParaView is asking for
> 3.2.  Utkarsh showed me how to override this using an environment variable,
> but isn’t this a bug that ParaView is asking for 3.2?
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> Here is the gl_context down in Mesa:
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> VersionString     $string *
> 0x01587d00                        0x01607580 -> "3.0 Mesa 11.0.4"
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> Alan
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