Richard Rauch writes:
> 
> (sigh)  I pasted the above lines into my /etc/XF86Config file, then
> exited/restarted X, and I still get:
> 
> GLUT: Fatal Error in project1: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by
> display: rkr.kcnet.com:0.0

You should see in the output of startx. (startx >& x.out perhaps)
GlxExtensionInit
RIVA GLX Version = 1.0  <- this is specific to my machine

> there be a so-named file somewhere on my file system, in order for this to
> work?  Or is the .so ``file'' internal somewhere?)

Yes, /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/glx.so.  I may be confused, but AFAIK the
glx extension can be built for _software_ rendering, you should not need
a supported video card.

You need to build the glx.so yourself, from sources available at:
http://reality.sgi.com/ripperda_engr/glx/

Note that it may be easier to build the CVS version of GLX and Mesa
as the latest release is for Mesa 2.5 (NetBSD pkgsrc has Mesa 3.0)

> Is there any way to get an XFree86 X driver to report the extensions that
> it supports (and which it has enabled)?  I was poking around
> /usr/X11/bin/*, but couldn't find any programs that seemed to provide such
> information.

Just the output of startx I think.

-Andrew
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