# Status of FBO driver support **URL:** \ **Category:** OpenGL: Basic Coding\ **Created:** [April 9, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427 "2005-04-09T13:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/mogumbo/32/3820_2.png) [@mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/u/mogumbo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/1 "2005-04-09T13:16:00Z")
Could any of the hardware vendors out there comment on the status of their EXT\_framebuffer\_object driver support? My preferred platform is NVidia on Linux. According to GLEW, FBO is not yet supported with the 1.0-7174 driver. Will this be available soon? What about other hardware/OS combinations? ---
**Author:** ![plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/plasmonster/32/72_2.png) [@plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/u/plasmonster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/2 "2005-04-10T13:29:00Z")
Hey Mogumbo, I don’t know how many IHV’s make it into the beginner’s forum, but I suspect it’s not many 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/mogumbo/32/3820_2.png) [@mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/u/mogumbo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/3 "2005-04-10T19:03:00Z")
Ha! I bet you’re right. But it just didn’t seem like an advanced question 🙂 I played with a beta NVidia driver for Windows today that is supposed to have FBO support, but haven’t gotten it to work yet ☹ I still want Linux support, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/plasmonster/32/72_2.png) [@plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/u/plasmonster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/4 "2005-04-10T19:07:00Z")
Yeah, I’ve been steering clear of the beta drivers lately … holding out for the full monty. Good luck with the Linux drivers. By the way, why not advanced? That seems to be the place for this sort of thing. I know a lot of people are interested in this. ---
**Author:** ![mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/mogumbo/32/3820_2.png) [@mogumbo](https://community.khronos.org/u/mogumbo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/5 "2005-04-10T19:56:00Z")
I suppose FBO is a pretty advanced OpenGL feature, but my question about it is a simple one. ---
**Author:** ![plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/plasmonster/32/72_2.png) [@plasmonster](https://community.khronos.org/u/plasmonster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/6 "2005-04-10T20:29:00Z")
Good point. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Overmind](https://community.khronos.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Overmind](https://community.khronos.org/u/Overmind)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/status-of-fbo-driver-support/29427/7 "2005-04-11T03:32:00Z")
There is a long discussion in the advanced forum about what works and what doesn’t work with current beta drivers: [http://www.opengl.org/discussion\_boards/cgi\_directory/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get\_topic;f=3;t=013087](http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/cgi_directory/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=013087) There is some working code posted there too… AFAIK there is no support for FBO on Linux. I’m waiting for this, too, but I think this could take a while. Propably they will first release a stable windows driver once they are finished implementing the missing parts…