[compiz] LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 patch fix - any reason why it's not included?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:01 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 15:04 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> I don't really know enough about how all this works to comment on it, so
> >> are you saying that without the ALWAYS_INDIRECT workaround that
> >> applications other than compiz will be affected? Or is it that the patch
> >> will not work with *all* pure AIGLX implementations (and thus free
> >> drivers as you mention above)?
> > 
> > It'll try to use GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap when it doesn't work, e.g.
> > when the server supports it but libGL doesn't.
> 
> Ahh OK, so this would affect ATi users running under fglrx+Xgl or Older
> nvidia users + Xgl then? Does it affect other classes of user too? I
> guess I'm asking under what circumstances would the server support it,
> but libGL not support it?
> 
> I may be completely out of date now, but I was still under the
> impression that for when we run compiz under Xgl, we need to issue a bit
> of an LD_LIBRARY_PATH hack to run it against Mesa's libGL...
> 
> In such scenarios, the libGL /would/ support tfp no?

The specific scenarios don't really matter. The server (or client)
string just doesn't say anything about an extension actually being
usable, so checking it makes no sense.


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