GLX 1.2 and Mesa 1.5?
Ian Romanick
idr at us.ibm.com
Fri Mar 24 08:36:01 PST 2006
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Karl Burgess wrote:
> With the current Xorg server the version of GLX is 1.2, but the software
> implementation of OpenGL provided by the Mesa3d libraries claims to
> support OpenGL version 1.5. If I run an application built for OpenGL
> 1.3 to the Xorg server built with the Mesa3d 1.5 OpenGL library, it will
> abort with a BadRequest protocol error.
The GLX version and the OpenGL version are two entirely different
things. Is your application built for GLX 1.3 or OpenGL 1.3?
> So why is the Xorg GLX layer only at version 1.2? Are there any plans for
> it to move to OpenGL 1.3 in the future?
> Is there a GLX 1.3 layer currently available in the OpenSource arena?
> If there isn't a GLX 1.3 layer available, then how do we utilise the
> Mesa 1.5
> functionality.
I don't know of an existing open-source GLX 1.3 implementation, but
we're working on it.
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