The RENDER extension is supported on a driver by driver basis. The SIS driver in 4.1.0 does not support RENDER, while the ATI Rage driver does support it. It is not specific to a vendor such as RedHat.
John Supplee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Asaf > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Newbie]Fonts on XFree86!!! > > > Ted Spradley wrote: > > >Asaf wrote: > > > >>You're other guess is wrong, "RENDER" extension is an extension to X > >>server. I don't know exactly what it does (maybe it is related to > >>fonts), but as far as I know (I consider myself a newbie as > well), it is > >>something that the X server should be compiled with. In > other words, as > >>far as I understand, RedHat simply distribute an X server > which was not > >>compiled with support for the RENDER extension. I also use > RedHat and > >>get the same error. > >>Please correct me if I am wrong. > >> > > > >http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/ > > > >My 4.2.0 log shows: "(II) Initializing built-in extension > RENDER" but > >there's no mention of it in my saved 4.1.0 log. Does "built-in" mean > >that it's not loaded as a module? > > > Well, I have no idea about the internals of X server... I know that > Linux kernel can work with or without modules, I don't know whether X > has a simillar functionality or not. All I know (and I am not certain > about it either), is that "RENDER" extension is something > that RedHat's > X server does not have and as far as I know it is something > that you can > choose to compile or not when building X server. Since I > never built an > X server on my own, I only used RedHat's I can't answer this > question... :-( > > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
