Latest Xgl code

Rich Wareham rjw57 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jan 3 07:10:35 PST 2006


David Reveman wrote:
> You're building the Xglx server, right? Don't do that, it wont work with
> GLX support. You just want to build Xgl server and the xglx module. I
> though about removing support for building Xglx, Xegl servers but I kept
> it as it might be useful for debugging purposes. I haven't used those in
> quite a while and that's why they are out of sync and not building. I
> should fix so they actually builds and probably also add a big warning
> message for when running configure with --enable-xglxserver or
> --enable-xeglserver.
> 
> Just use:
> 
> /configure --enable-xglserver --enable-glx --enable-xkb
> 
> and something like this to start it:
> 
> 'Xgl :1 -ac'
> 
> for GLX and XV acceleration, try 'Xgl :1 -ac -accel xv -accel
> glx:pbuffer' if you're using nvidia's driver and 'Xgl :1 -ac -accel
> xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer' if you're using the fglrx driver.

All fine now (build wise, I'm doing this over ssh so can't test ATM). 
Would it be worth me expanding the wiki page[1] a little do you think, 
especially with that last nugget.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXgl

-- 
Rich



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