[lsb-discuss] lsb-xvfb and GLX extension

[Alexey Khoroshilov]

Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Eugene Shatokhin wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Could someone explain whether the LSB version of X Virtual Frame Buffer supports GLX extension and if it does, how to enable it?
>>
>> I tried to run a program using OpenGL under lsb-xvfb (1.2.0) on SLES10 (ia32) and got messages like this:
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0"
>> The OpenGL functions seem not to work in this case, of course.
>>
>> When I executed the same program under the 'default' X server, it works just fine.
>>
>> NB. Xvfb was started in a way similar to how it is done in lsb-test-desktop:
>>
>> 	/opt/lsb/bin/Xvfb -render -screen 0 1024x768x16 :1.0 -ac +bs -kb -fp /opt/lsb/share/fonts/misc/
>>
>>     
>
> Looks like it does not. From what I can find on google, you would call it 
> with -x GLX to enable glx, and lsb-xvfb complains with a usage message 
> when I do this, whereas the system on on SLES10 does not. I turned off a 
> lot of options trying to build it with lsbcc, and perhaps this is one of 
> them. 
>
> The system Xvfb does return data from glxinfo, whereas lsb-xvfb does not.
> We could look at enabling glx for lsb-xvfb. Is this something you need for 
> 3.2?
>   
No, GLX tests do not go into the 3.2 release. So this problem can be 
postponed until we finish the release.

--
Alexey
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