Just figured that one out... Apparently, ATI's fglrx drivers suck as they are apparently missing a huge chunk from the 2.0 spec:

glBlendEquationSeparate
glDrawBuffers
glStencilOpSeparate
glStencilFuncSeparate
glStencilMaskSeparate
glAttachShader
glBindAttribLocation
glCompileShader
glCreateProgram
glCreateShader
glDeleteProgram
glDeleteShader
glDetachShader
glDisableVertexAttribArray
glEnableVertexAttribArray
glGetActiveAttrib
glGetActiveUniform
glGetAttachedShaders
glGetAttribLocation
glGetProgramiv
glGetProgramInfoLog
glGetShaderiv
glGetShaderInfoLog
glGetShaderSource
glGetUniformLocation
glGetUniformfv
glGetUniformiv
glGetVertexAttribdv
glGetVertexAttribfv
glGetVertexAttribiv
glGetVertexAttribPointerv
glIsProgram
glIsShader
glLinkProgram
glShaderSource
glUseProgram
glUniform1f
glUniform2f
glUniform3f
glUniform4f
glUniform1i
glUniform2i
glUniform3i
glUniform4i
glUniform1fv
glUniform2fv
glUniform3fv
glUniform4fv
glUniform1iv
glUniform2iv
glUniform3iv
glUniform4iv
glUniformMatrix2fv
glUniformMatrix3fv
glUniformMatrix4fv
glValidateProgram
glVertexAttrib1d
glVertexAttrib1dv
glVertexAttrib1f
glVertexAttrib1fv
glVertexAttrib1s
glVertexAttrib1sv
glVertexAttrib2d
glVertexAttrib2dv
glVertexAttrib2f
glVertexAttrib2fv
glVertexAttrib2s
glVertexAttrib2sv
glVertexAttrib3d
glVertexAttrib3dv
glVertexAttrib3f
glVertexAttrib3fv
glVertexAttrib3s
glVertexAttrib3sv
glVertexAttrib4Nbv
glVertexAttrib4Niv
glVertexAttrib4Nsv
glVertexAttrib4Nub
glVertexAttrib4Nubv
glVertexAttrib4Nuiv
glVertexAttrib4Nusv
glVertexAttrib4bv
glVertexAttrib4d
glVertexAttrib4dv
glVertexAttrib4f
glVertexAttrib4fv
glVertexAttrib4iv
glVertexAttrib4s
glVertexAttrib4sv
glVertexAttrib4ubv
glVertexAttrib4uiv
glVertexAttrib4usv
glVertexAttribPointer

That being said, is there a way to force GL to be pre 2.0 even though the driver says otherwise? This way I would still have ARB version of those objects...

One way to do this is obviously to hand-edit Base/glew.h and remove mention of the GL 2.0, but there perhaps should be a more "elegant" way with a configure flag (I am a total newb when it comes to editing configure scripts, though).

Ico