DRI: libGL warning: driver not supporting visuals

[Ian Romanick]

Martin Weißenborn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:46:42PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 
>>Could you post (or post a link to) the output of 'LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose 
>>glxinfo'?  It should only be able to get to the code where those 
>>warnings can be emitted if direct rendering is enabled.  This is odd.
> 
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> I can post debug information when Xorg is recompiled. In the meantime I
> tried stock XFree86-4.4.0 which locks up my machine with a blanked
> screen on `glxinfo'.

You don't need to rebuild X.org.  The LIBGL_DEBUG part is just an 
environment variable that makes libGL emit some extra stuff whenever a 
program tries to create a GL context.

> However, the server's logfile did suggest that direct rendering was
> enabled.
> 
> One more question: DRI-people suggested to install libglide3.so, since
> libglide*.so is missing on my system. Could that missing library lead to
> the oddly emitted warnings? (I could not find any missing reference of
> the dynamic loader to that library, but the troubleshooting-guide of DRI
> states that library is necessary.)

I don't know.  I'm not much of a 3dfx / glide expert. :(