Keith Whitwell schrieb:
> Maybe Brian and Ian??  And KRH too, I suspect...
>
> In any case, the answer is that this lies in the 'rough edges' Thomas was 
> talking about when he pushed the driver.  Basically this code is two years 
> old and apart from bugfixes and the update to run against modern DRM & Xorg, 
> nothing has been done to it in the meantime.  I suspect you'd need DRI2 
> support to get the functionality enabled which you're looking for, and that 
> the current driver advertising the extension client-side is actually an error.
>
> We're not really intending to do a lot of work on the i915tex driver, just to 
> have it in continued existence to illustrate another approach command 
> submission, etc.  Our primary focus is on Gallium & the drivers that will 
> come from that.  
>
> If you wanted to dig into the reasons for this error & figure out if 
> something can be done about it, it'd be great.  Possibly asking under a 
> different subject line might better attract the attention of the GLX gurus...
>
> Keith
Thank you for your detailed answer, Keith! :)

For DRI2 I will have to wait until the new protocol is ready which will
enable direct rendering support using DRI2. But I think krh is working
on that. :)

Greetings, Johannes

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