-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Hopf wrote: > I haven't noticed until recently (due to a bug opened against our > openSUSE 11.1) that indirect rendering via GLX doesn't work any more > when an older Xserver is involved.
Can you be more specific? What commands don't work? Can you run glxinfo on one machine using the display on another? > Some research brought up that this had been broken knowingly: > > git commit #1087cc61b3776f: > > Author: George Sapountzis <gs...@yahoo.gr> 2008-06-13 14:54:08 > > glx: load swrast_dri.so > > caveats: > - does not work with old (i.e. libGLcore) xserver: > [...] Eh...what? What repo is that? swrast_dri.so doesn't have anything to do with the GLX protocol. I'm not really sure what is meant by that comment. George? > IMHO this is a no-go - the protocol layer is standardized, and I don't > know why this had to be broken. Given that I don't understand the > benefits of direct software rendering (compared to indirect) I just > use the applied patch to disable it again. I haven't seen any serious > side effects so far. There is quite a bit of functionality for which there is no indirect rendering protocol. Also, client-side software rendering is usually faster than server-side software rendering. > Now there might be caveats I don't see, so my question is twofold: > > - What does my patch break (besides client side direct software > rendering, which IMHO is irrelevant)? > > - How can this be fixed for good (using client side direct software > rendering if the Xserver is capable of dealing with it, reverting to > indirect otherwise)? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmoj8QACgkQX1gOwKyEAw/NIwCbBr4zVBrf9YrLAN4Vb7eUVY5w ZkQAoIemuBS3cwoC6DBAGJxE8tK4A8BY =DlWu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
