interpreting glxinfo's output

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 26 18:29:38 PDT 2008


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andrew rader wrote:

| "general: and that's the resulting supported GLX extensions, depending
| what the server and client sides support."

Whoever called it "general" chose his words poorly.  "Actually available
for use" is more correct.

| would it be better to just say "general is a list of the extensions
| that the driver supports"? since both the client and server (in my
| case) support TFP, but "general" doesn't, is it the driver that is
| missing this extension?

It's the intersection (logical "and") of driver, client-library, and
server.  The driver list isn't explicitly available.
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