server GLX version: GLX 1.3, GLX 1.4

[Roland Scheidegger]

On 09.05.2009 14:56, Martin Walch wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> when trying to run some Java code with j3d, I got the error message that glx 
> 1.3 is needed, but only glx 1.2 is available. As I do not know much about glx, 
> I made some online searches and read that the supported GLX version is shown 
> by glxinfo and is the minimum of "client glx version string" and "server glx 
> version string". glxinfo says on my system
> 
> …
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> …
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> …
> GLX version: 1.2
> …
> 
> (X.Org 7.4 with xf86-video-intel 2.7.0, libX11 1.1.5 (no xcb) and Mesa 7.4.1)
> 
> I tried looking into the code of Mesa and X.Org, to find out where the server 
> version string comes from, but I do not know enough about X11 and GLX. Can you 
> tell me what the server glx version depends on (in general)?

The server glx version doesn't really depend on anything, it is
hardcoded as 1.2 (in glxserver.h, also see extension string in
glxscreen.c). This can be found in xserver/glx. I can't remember
off-hand what's missing in the code for higher versions (maybe pbuffer
support)?.

Roland