On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:12 AM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
>
> > Yes DRC that makes sense. In hindsight my setup may have always had the
> software mesa driver and therefore always ignored that env variable. Maybe
> thats the diff between the 2 env variables. How did you guys go with
> LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE ?
> >
> > A little digging for Red Hat revealed the driver package might be called
> 'swrast' or 'mesa-dri-swrast-driver' which has swrast_dri.so. Centos might
> be 'dri-swrast'.
>
> swrast is definitely installed, and I tried all combinations of the two
> environment variables. You're sure that you're using TurboVNC? What I'm
> saying is that I don't understand the mechanism behind how you could use
> Mesa libGL to do the rendering unless Mesa is either (a) integrated into the
> X server's DRI interface or (b) sending the OpenGL commands indirectly
> through GLX. In either case, it requires a capability that the TurboVNC X
> server doesn't have.
>
I noticed that TigerVNC comes with a swrast_dri.so in it's lib/dri folder.
But still can't get TigerVNC to run OpenGL apps. I tried all combination of
the two env vars as well. So why does TigerVNC come with swrast_dri.so, and
how can I use it to run OpenGL apps?
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