Xgl is no longer giving me the COMPOSITE extension....

[Ioannis Nousias]

Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to have Xgl working quite nicely but when I tried to update 
> recently, I've run into problems.
>
> Everything is compiled up and running at the moment, but the trouble 
> is I do not seem to be getting the COMPOSITE extension from Xgl.
>
> I am definately running Xgl (and the underlying Xorg on display 93):
>
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ ps auxf | grep Xgl
> root      8982  5.1  5.7 120008 74396 ?        SL   23:06   0:27      
> \_ /home/colin/xgl/prefix/bin/Xgl -audit 0 -br -accel glx:pbuffer 
> -accel xv:fbo
> root      8988  0.2  0.6  48980  8780 tty8     SLs+ 23:06   0:01      
> |   \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -br -auth /tmp/.Xgl-auth-t6IRVO -nolisten 
> tcp :93 -terminate
>
> I am thinking that the problems may be related to my use of my 
> system's Xorg as the underlying platform rather than a more recent CVS 
> build of Xorg? Like I say it all worked before but now it doesn't.
>
> When I try and run compiz, it complains that it has no composite 
> extension.
>
> xdpyinfo seems to confirm that it is indeed not available.
>
> I don't seem to have a log file for Xgl so cannot see what more is 
> happening easily...
>
>
> I am using Nvidia drivers. Tried with various settings of the 
> composite extension enabled/disabled in xorg.conf (it always seems to 
> enable this extension anyways as it is built in....) and with the 
> nvidia option for allowing GLX with composite but to no avail.
>
> Any help would be appreicated... I can easily supply more info if needed.
>
> Many thanks..
>
> Col.
>
>

hello Colin!

you are in a better shape than me! I'm unable to compile Xgl at the 
moment. I get this error:

glxcmds.c: In function '__glXCreateARGBConfig':
glxcmds.c:1072: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToTextureRgb'glxcmds.c:1073: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no 
member named 'bindToTextureRgba'
glxcmds.c:1074: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToMipmapTexture'
glxcmds.c:1075: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToTextureTargets'
glxcmds.c:1076: error: 'GLX_TEXTURE_1D_BIT_EXT' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
glxcmds.c:1076: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
glxcmds.c:1076: error: for each function it appears in.)
glxcmds.c:1076: error: 'GLX_TEXTURE_2D_BIT_EXT' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
glxcmds.c:1077: error: 'GLX_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_BIT_EXT' undeclared (first 
use in this function)
glxcmds.c:1078: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 'yInverted'
glxcmds.c: In function 'DoGetFBConfigs':
glxcmds.c:1176: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToTextureRgb'glxcmds.c:1177: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no 
member named 'bindToTextureRgba'
glxcmds.c:1178: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToMipmapTexture'
glxcmds.c:1180: error: 'GLX_BIND_TO_TEXTURE_TARGETS_EXT' undeclared 
(first use in this function)
glxcmds.c:1180: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 
'bindToTextureTargets'
glxcmds.c:1182: error: '__GLcontextModes' has no member named 'yInverted'
make[2]: *** [glxcmds.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/xgl/GL/glx'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/xgl/GL'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

some of the recent changes have caused this (after the 7th of April). It 
might require some Mesa patch currently not available on CVS

regards,
Ioannis