NVE7 has mesa OGL 3.0 support for ages and xf86 nouveau driver must enable it. It was tested natively with ArchLinux, among others. $ glxinfo| grep OpenGL (ArchLinux) OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVE7 OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 13.0.0 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile OpenGL core profile extensions: OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL extensions: OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 13.0.0 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10 OpenGL ES profile extensions: NOW THE PROBLEMATIC $ glxinfo| grep OpenGL (Gentoo) OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVE7 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL extensions: OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 13.0.0 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16 OpenGL ES profile extensions: FURTHER SETTINGS $ eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * $ eselect mesa list 64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) 64bit i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD) 64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) 64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) 64bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * 32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945) 32bit i965 (Intel GMA 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x, HD) 32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500) 32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) 32bit sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * $ emerge -pv mesa [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-13.0.0::gentoo USE="bindist classic d3d9 dri3 egl gallium gbm llvm nptl pax_kernel pic -debug -gles1 -gles2 -opencl -openmax -osmesa (-selinux) -vaapi -valgrind -vdpau -wayland -xa -xvmc" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau (-freedreno) -i915 -i965 -ilo -intel -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeon -radeonsi (-vc4) -vmware" 0 KiB
> USE="bindist" OpenGL 3.0 requires patent-encumbered code which is not built with USE="bindist". You need to disable that flag if you want OpenGL 3.0. Please reopen the issue if the problem persists after rebuilding mesa with bindist disabled.
