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Re: FirePro "Not a GL2 implementation"

Posted by Xerxes Rånby on May 07, 2015; 12:48pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/FirePro-Not-a-GL2-implementation-tp4034418p4034452.html

sranger wrote
Thanks for all the info. It then looks like, without the AMD driver (which is in Ubuntu but segfaults on my machine), the backwards compatible FFP context isn't going to be happening anytime soon, if ever.

Well, it's an answer, though not the one I was hoping for. Thanks again for all your patience.
Backward compatible profile is dropped on proprietary Mac OS X drivers as well.

Both AMD and NVIDIA only support their latest GPU cards using the proprietary drivers.
NVIDIA has dropped support for all pre-Fermi (GTX 4XX) graphics cards in their latest driver
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SteamOS-159-NVIDIA-Drop
AMD has dropped support for all pre-radeon HD 5000 Series GPU cards.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalystOmegaLINReleaseNotes.aspx

Thus if you have a GTX 300 NVIDIA , AMD HD 4000 or some other 5year old  GPU card then the only supported driver is the opensource Mesa3D driver.

This is the reason why the latest AMD drivers do not work on your GPU because AMD has removed support for all cards older than 5 years.
EDIT: in your case it looks like the proprietary catalyst linux driver never have added support for the high end FirePro W8100 GPU :/