For how long Intel users are stucked with OpenGL 1.4 ?

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Mateusz Kaduk <mateusz.kaduk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any chance to get OpenGL 2.1 on Intel 965GM ?
> A time ago I was using DRM module i915.ko from git and it was working nice.
> Now because of GEM, module is not compiling anymore and I am stucked with
> OpenGL 1.4 which does not work for most of applications that I was able to
> run before! While ati and nvidia support OpenGL 2.1 nicely, laptop users
> with onboard Intel are really stucked... Is there any walkaround for this
> bug ? Is there any branch that supports OpenGL 2.1 and does not have GEM in
> its code?

Well, there is the gallium driver. It Implements OpenGL 2.1 and
doesn't use GEM. However, you have to use specific versions of
mesa/drm for it to work. I'll leave you to google, or maybe someone
nice will jump in :)

Stephane