Despite what it seems like the issue may be, I'm entirely unable to draw in OpenGL unless I use something like Freeglut to do the drawing for me. For whatever reason, I have a feeling that my drivers are totally screwed as this wasn't the case before.

I've tried this using SDL and Qt especially, and both implementations result in something poor happening graphically.

I'm using Mesa on Ubuntu (libgl1, in fact), and would like to hear from others who have had similar experiences such as this, and could comment on their experiences as well. The issue is more so drivers, I think (I have a Gateway nv57h26u with an INTEL HD Graphics card - which, honestly, is complete shite).

As far as basic setup, nothing more than Qt Creator, Ubuntu, and GCC for the compiler (C++ - NOT c).

What could be going on here?