Latest Xgl code

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Tue Jan 3 07:33:40 PST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:10 +0000, Rich Wareham wrote:
> David Reveman wrote:
> > You're building the Xglx server, right? Don't do that, it wont work with
> > GLX support. You just want to build Xgl server and the xglx module. I
> > though about removing support for building Xglx, Xegl servers but I kept
> > it as it might be useful for debugging purposes. I haven't used those in
> > quite a while and that's why they are out of sync and not building. I
> > should fix so they actually builds and probably also add a big warning
> > message for when running configure with --enable-xglxserver or
> > --enable-xeglserver.
> > 
> > Just use:
> > 
> > /configure --enable-xglserver --enable-glx --enable-xkb
> > 
> > and something like this to start it:
> > 
> > 'Xgl :1 -ac'
> > 
> > for GLX and XV acceleration, try 'Xgl :1 -ac -accel xv -accel
> > glx:pbuffer' if you're using nvidia's driver and 'Xgl :1 -ac -accel
> > xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer' if you're using the fglrx driver.
> 
> All fine now (build wise, I'm doing this over ssh so can't test ATM). 
> Would it be worth me expanding the wiki page[1] a little do you think, 
> especially with that last nugget.
> 
> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXgl

Sure. I'll update the TODO list on that page shortly as well.

-David




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