Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:00:09 -0500 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: "Jeremy W. Sheaffer" <jws9c@cs.virginia.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + OpenGL Message-ID: <418954E9.10500@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411031054520.11233@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0410312202190.10398@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU> <41886EF1.1010607@ec.rr.com> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411031054520.11233@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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>Thanks for the input. I solved the problem. Read on: > >Actually, it doesn't depend on OS or drivers if you are using a >unaccelerated software implementation. E.G. Mesa w/o DRI. I enquired on >the Mesa users mailing list and here is the answer I got from Brian Paul, >the author and primary maintainer of Mesa: > >] The problem is libGL.so and the server-side GLX protocol dispatcher >] don't currently support the ARB extensions you mention above. >] >] The simplest solution would be for you to download/compile Mesa-6.2. >] This will result in a "stand-alone" libGL.so library that renders with >] Xlib, instead of going over the GLX protocol to the X server. > >Unfortunately, I had already done this, but what I didn't notice at that >time was that the Mesa makefile with FreeBSD config has a broken install. >It wasn't symlinking libGL.so.1.5 to libGL.so, so I was still trying to >run programs against the old OpenGL libraries. Making the links myself, I >now have the extensions I need. Granted, I have zero acceleration, but I >have access to other machines to run the code fast. The machine in >question only needs to be able to develop and run for debugging purposes. > >As for Windows or Linux--I wouldn't be caught dead trying to do >development in Windows. And ATI support under Linux is awful and not >worth the effort. I would still either be unaccelerated or not have the >necessary extensions. The machine in my office runs Slack with a high end >NV35 based card, and the NVIDIA drivers are great--only very slightly >behind the Windows ones. > >Anyway, thanks again for the help. > >Jeremy > > > Glad to help. I have been rather disapointed with ATI open source drivers so far, and they seem to be way to scared of open source.
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