Any recent updates to OpenGL?

Question

I do engineering work in VariCAD. It offers three display options per object: "Shaded", "Transparent", and "Wireframe".

This has worked extremely well until recently. Now, when I start the program, I get an error stating that it cannot "initialize OpenGL extensions" and that it's reverting to "OpenGL 1.1".

I contacted their tech support and at the same time uninstalled and re-installed successively older versions, thinking this to be a VariCAD problem. Now that I'm seeing the same behavior on older versions of VariCAD, and given this problem only recently started happening, I'm beginning to wonder if it's something in the guts/kernel of Ubuntu that got updated and broke the ability to start OpenGL.

Upshot is, we have no "Transparent" capabilities now, which worked fine before.

Output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: Dell 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Dell GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Output of glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.2.8
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 19.2.8
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 19.2.8
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Answer 1

I would suggest to upgrade the driver.

Run in a terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-418
sudo apt upgrade

Most likely this will fix the issue on the 5.3 kernel.