Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> >> Do we care about shipping ogl_install_check for both SPARC and x86 >> and installing it in /usr/X11/demo or is glxgears sufficient? > > Someone who knows more about OpenGL than I would have to decide if we want > to ship it, but if we did care about shipping it, we'd care enough to install > it in /usr/bin, not hide it where no one will ever find it. Some advantages of shipping ogl_install_check in addition to glxgears:
+ ogl_install_check is something to which longer term customers are accustomed + ogl_install_check ships with both 32 and 64 bit versions which allows verifying both 32 and 64 bit runtime environments. [OTOH, this should be easy to do with glxgears] + ogl_install_check also prints useful GLX and GLU info including both client and server extensions and context info + IMHO, ogl-install-check prints the same GL extension info but in a easier to read format Some problems: + ogl_install_check calibration timing is terribly broken on fast cards + ogl_install_check can fail if it doesn't find a sufficiently robust visual (RGBA 24 bit double-buffer) which could produce a false negative when used to verify the health of OpenGL on the system
