('Wrong' in terms of what you would expect). I should note here that this is both the wrong graphics card, and wrong version numbers. OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.44 OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8800 GT/PCIe/SSE2 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. Notice that the actual version is presented by the 'core profile version' (4.1), whereas the 'OpenGL version' is presented as 3.0. OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00 OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.1.2 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10 OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.1.2 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: glxinfo | grep 'version' You will get the output as follows, glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL version'
