GLX 1.2 and Mesa 1.5?

[Karl Burgess]

Thanks Ian,

The application is built for OpenGL 1.3, and in particular calls
glXCreateWindow. Unfortunately this function appears to be
not implemented in GLX 1.2.

Karl

Ian Romanick wrote:

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>>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.
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>The GLX version and the OpenGL version are two entirely different
>things.  Is your application built for GLX 1.3 or OpenGL 1.3?
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>>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.
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>I don't know of an existing open-source GLX 1.3 implementation, but
>we're working on it.
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