OS wrote:

> I've asked about the RENDER and the xinerama extension myself. After posting
> to the Xpert mailing list I don't believe that the xinerama extension is
> supported by my chipset driver (ati). I just assumed that RENDER is not
> supported on the ati driver as well (after all, hardly anything is !!!  They
> had 3D acceleration in 3.3.6, but not in 4  - go figure !).

After searching around I found that the RENDER extension is sth. build into X
that loads itself on startup without any entry in XF86Config. In my
/var/log/XFree.0.log I see that this extension is attempted to be loaded but
although no error follows I don't see it afterwards in the 'xdpyinfo' output.
So it could be that it decides it can't be loaded if it realizes you use the
ati module. Yes I too have an ati (expert@play). I think though XFree does some
kind of acceleration. I hoped that 4.0.2 would even be better than 4.0.1 ...

But let me tell you that  with my XFree-4.0.1 I was able to use the latest
kwintv albeit without the libqt-mt multithreading option compiled in kwintv.
All my efforts to upgrade were just to enable this multi-threading in kwintv
(question of being complete).

I also start to suspect that the Xlib error I see is just a warning and that
kwintv crashes for some other reason.
I'll try to get help from the kwintv side.

Guy.

>
>
> Owen
>
> On Thursday 15 February 2001  3:40 am, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In order to use the latest kwintv with use of qt multi-threading I went
> > to the trouble of upgrading to glibc-2.2.1, qt-2.2.3, xfree-4.0.2,
> > freetype2 etc...
> > I compiled qt but  got binary rpms for the rest. My original system was
> > a Mdk 7.2.
> >
> > After re-compiling kwintv ok I get this bleeding error at launchtime:
> >
> > $ kwintv
> > Xl$ kwintv
> > Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
> > KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2
> > KCrash: Application Name = kwintv path = <unknown>
> > Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
> >
> > Does this mean that the xfree-4.0.2 I got from the cooker didn't have
> > the RENDER extension compiled in? I searched my system and found
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.0 present.
> > If this is it how do you load it (tried 'load render' in vain)? An
> > xdpyinfo right now shows no RENDER extension indeed.
> >
> > I find the extension loading quite ambiguous cause you have modules,
> > built-in extension and others.
> >
> > Can anyone please shed some light on this by checking with xdpyinfo and
> > the contents of his XF86Config-4 file e.g..
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Guy.


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