OpenGL GLX extension not supported

Question

I had installed OpenGL and freeglut in Ubuntu 10.04 and it worked fine in 10.04 and 10.10. But after I upgraded to 11.04, the applications I've developed using OpenGL is not running properly. They're compiling without errors, but when I try to execute them, I get there errors:

For GLUT:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
freeglut (./a.out): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ':0.0'

For just OpenGL:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
main: X server has no OpenGL GLX extension

A few things I tried:

$glxgears
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual


$glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

Edit: It is unlikely that this is because I don't have the graphics drivers as all I have is on board graphics.

This is my system graphics information from sysinfo

$sysinfo
GRAPHIC CARD
      VGA controller
    Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff50

Edit 2: And it seems I have a driver installed for that.

$lshw -C display
  *-display:0             
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 07
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:f4000000-f43fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:1800(size=8)

Look at "configuration: driver="

Answer 1

You could need Bumblebee. But this is supported only for 12.04 and from 13.10 up. Oficial instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

You need to open your terminal and enter the commands below.

If on 12.04.3, replace linux-headers-generic with linux-headers-generic-lts-raring.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable

Enable the Universe and Multiverse repositories (for bumblebee and nvidia packages respectively).

sudo apt-get update

Install Bumblebee using the default proprietary nvidia driver:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia linux-headers-generic

Reboot

All should be ok now.