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Linux Mint 19 TARA released (+ quick OpenGL and Vulkan test)

Yeah, the new version of Linux Mint is available. Linux Mint 19, codenamed TARA, is a LTS version (LTS = long term support) and will be supported by the Mint team until 2023.

You can download Linux Mint 19 from THIS PAGE

The new features of Mint 19 include the TimeShift (you can go back in time and restore your computer to the last functional system snapshot), a improved Software Manager, the new MATE 1.20 desktop manager with High-DPI support.

More details can be found in the different articles:

The nice thing with Linux Mint, is the speed of installation: around 10/15 minutes for: downloading the ISO file, putting it on an USB key and installing it on a PC. Really cool!

I installed Linux Mint 19 MATE because I always use the MATE version of Mint. The test PC has a RyZen 7 1700 CPU, 16GB DDR4 and an EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card. And a Dell P4317Q, an 43-inch 4K monitor!

Linux Mint 19 comes with the Nouveau display driver or the GeForce 390.48 driver:

Here is a screenshot of GL-Z with the Nouveau driver (here the LLVMpipe software renderer):

After this quick test, I installed the GeForce 390.48 driver using the driver manager. And here is what GL-Z said:

Cool, OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.0.65!

I quickly tested GeeXLab with an tessellation demo and a PhysX 3 demo.

Everything worked flawlessly!

Linux Mint 19 has replaced the previous Mint 18.3 in my Linux box!

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How to install OpenGL?

How to install OpenGL?

Post by Ya Dad » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:26 am

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by phd21 » Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:14 pm

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » and » lsusb » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

OpenGL is installed as part of your video drivers. You can tell which version of OpenGL from the results of the command «inxi -Fxzd».

There are options for updating the video drivers, but we will need more information first.

The version of openGL depends upon your video card(s) hardware. I do not know of any method to install a higher (newer) version of «openGL», for example, if you are currently using openGL v2.1 and want openGL v3.x or higher, except to get newer better video card hardware. A fair amount of software applications require openGL 3.x or higher which unfortunately my ancient computer’s video hardware does not do.

Hope this helps .

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by Ya Dad » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:43 pm

The information helps a lot. Thanks!

Here are the results from terminal:

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by phd21 » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:43 pm

You are welcome.

Well, you only have a 32-bit computer with only openGL v2.1. So, I do not know if your computer is capable of running Open Arena or the Mupen64 well in Linux.

60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV515 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 direct render: Yes

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by Ya Dad » Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:29 am

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by phd21 » Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:45 am

Is that T7600 the CPU? What is the make and model of the computer that is coming?

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by Ya Dad » Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:50 am

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by smurphos » Wed Jan 09, 2019 2:17 am

It’s the GPU that’s limited to OpenGL version 2.1, and that’s what you’d need to upgrade to support newer versions of OpenGL.

Open Arena should be OKish on your system — I can’t see in it’s requirements a minimum OpenGL version or that its 64bit only — have you tried the Flatpak? The repo version is buggy.

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by Ya Dad » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:46 am

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by Hoser Rob » Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:02 am

Your problem is that your AMD GPU is ancient (the BIOS date is 2006) and only supports 2.0, I belive, not 2.1, not that that actually matters here. I fail to see how a newer CPU in a laptop will help. I may be wrong there but someone is going to have to give me a damn good explanation why.

The graphics card is the problem and gaming is going to be hopeless with only 2.0 or 2.1 OpenGL supported. There’s no driver of other software to update the OpenGL level. Seen that asked by beginners many times here and at Ubuntu sotes and that’s the answer.

All that stuff you read about how Linux is great for «breathing life in to old hardware» etc etc isn’t entirely wrong. But that does NOT mean that all modern Linux software or even desktop environments are going to work properly at all. For example I can state with a great deal of certainty that running Cinnamon on such a machine woulde be pretty hopeless.

No 2006 vintage machine is going to be any good for modern gaming in Linux or any other OS. SOrry buit I’ve seen worse, like people with Cedarview gpus, just about the worst ones for Linux, expecting top do watch 1080p video and do gaming. I have a netbook with Cedarview so I of which I speak there, the only thing worse is SIS AFAIK.

Re: How to install OpenGL?

Post by phd21 » Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:30 am

Yes, Linux Mint 19.x versions do support installing and using software packaged as a flatpak option, see lower right of the software manager, or from the console terminal. But, if your system is 32-bit you will not be able to run 64-bit software packaged as flatpak or packaged in any other way.

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How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by CashTheCashier » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:21 pm

When using steam this error pops up when starting a game. I am new to steam and just installed it. We have Linux Mint 17.3.

Here is what the error says «Could not find required OpenGL entry point ‘glGetError’ ! Ethier your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.»
On the Terminal it says I have the OpenGL driver 1.4 and in order to play the game you need Open Gl 2.0.
Also when we downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.00.09.run and then pops up a window saying could not open file. Then gave us options for character encoding and we kept clicking the retry button but nothing worked. So, Then we opened the driver manager and it said there was no proprietary drivers.

If anyone knows how to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open GL 2.0 using linux mint 17.3 PLEASE HELP THANKYOU AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.

Re: How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by xenopeek » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:34 pm

You can use Driver Manager (application in your menu) to install a different graphics card driver.

I don’t know, but potentially it could also be the case that the card itself doesn’t support newer OpenGL features?

Re: How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by CashTheCashier » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:41 pm

Re: How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by CashTheCashier » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:42 pm

Re: How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by xenopeek » Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:08 pm

Re: How to update OpenGl 1.4 to Open Gl 2.0 using Linux?

Post by CashTheCashier » Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:24 pm

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Getting to OpenGL 4.0(+)

Getting to OpenGL 4.0(+)

Post by pendrifter » Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:35 pm

Kernel: 5.4.0-59-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7
wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal

Re: Getting to OpenGL 4.0(+)

Post by phd21 » Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:45 pm

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

«OpenGL» is dependent upon your video card’s hardware. Sometimes you can get to a slightly higher version of «openGL» by installing newer video card drivers.

Re: Getting to OpenGL 4.0(+)

Post by pendrifter » Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:55 pm

Kernel: 5.4.0-59-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7
wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal

Re: Getting to OpenGL 4.0(+)

Post by phd21 » Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:32 pm

Okay. You have a really nice computer that is already using OpenGL v4.5. What software are you trying to use that requires OpenGL greater than v3.0?

60Hz
OpenGL : renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 direct render: Yes

You might consider updating the Linux Kernel to 4.18.xx or newer.

You might also consider installing one or more of the video driver and mesa PPA’s like «x-swat».

Mesa 18.1.1 is Now Available to Install on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — OMG! Ubuntu!
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/mes . -18-04-ppa

How to Install Mesa 18.0.4 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | UbuntuHandbook
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 . 18-04-lts/

To install this using the PPA method, open a console terminal, type in, or copy & paste, each line below one by one: Click «Select All» above command, right click the highlighted command, select Copy (or Ctrl+Insert), click in the console terminal window, and right click paste (or Shift+Insert), repeat for each command.

Once everything is installed you should reboot your system.

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What is terminal command that can show OpenGL version?

So I want to find out which is my OpenGL version. I have access to Ubuntu via SSH. Which command shall I execute?

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To Check OpenGL Version,

glxinfo | grep «OpenGL version»

You will get the output as follows,

Edit:

You may have better luck with modern OpenGL just grepping for «version» instead of «OpenGL version» given the differences between the core and compat profiles, as well as the various GLSL and GLES versions:

Notice that the actual version is presented by the «core profile version» (4.1), whereas the «OpenGL version» is presented as 3.0.

depending on what you’re looking for:

Open GL Implementation

You can use glxinfo, from the mesa-utils package:

Development Libraries

this depends a little,

will tell you version information, etc. of any package.

but you’ll need to know what specific part/implementation, etc. of opengl you’re interested in. i suspect, for you, it’ll be:

Note: I’ve added this answer at a later date, because none of the existing answers address a crucial aspects regarding ssh, and will give misleading values to those who follow the above instructions.

Use X-forwarding when ssh-ing. This is enabled with ssh -X .

I should note here that this is both the wrong graphics card, and wrong version numbers. (‘Wrong’ in terms of what you would expect).

Set DISPLAY variable to :0 , to allow access to the graphic card’s driver from the remote session.

This lists the correct graphics card (the one on the remote computer), as well as the correct version numbers.

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