[Mesa-dev] multiple versions in version string

[tom fogal]

Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:
> On 06/21/2011 10:58 AM, tom fogal wrote:
> > Michel D=C3=A4nzer <michel at daenzer.net> writes:
> >>>> It should work fine with Xvfb or any other X server, using any
> >>>> kind of display connection.
> >>>
> >>> This thread started because Xvfb isn't offering what I need: GL
> >>> 2.0.
> >>
> >> Because you're using indirect rendering.
> >
> > Yes.  That's the point, I /can't/ get direct rendering with Xvfb.
>
> What Michel means is you can build a software version of Mesa that
> just draws into a pixmap.  It's not indirect GLX, and it's not direct
> rendering either.  This is --with-driver=xlib, IIRC.

But that library still requires an X server, no?  And I can't get Xvfb
to use that library unless I custom compile Xvfb, right?

-tom