DRI backwards compatibility problem from X.Org 6.8.0 onwards

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 10 16:52:45 PST 2004


On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:04:51PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> There's a backwards compatibility breakage with X.Org 6.8.0 and beyond
> because of revision 1.3 of the file xc/include/glxint.h. So, those
> that provide binary drivers that were compiled against X.Org 6.7.x or
> XFree86 4.4.0 or earlier will break as well.
> 
> The problem stems from these additional fields in the GLXvisualConfigRec
> which actually are not needed. 
> 
>     int multiSampleSize;
>     int nMultiSampleBuffers;
>     int visualSelectGroup;

Ah,

It seems as though the DMX code probably added these as it makes use
of them. 

Alan.


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