On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> (It may be of interest: ``locate glx.so'' returns nothing.  Shouldn't
> 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. http://reality.sgi.com/ripperda_engr/glx/ .

> 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.

xdpyinfo | grep GLX

> I can live with that.  Mesa appears close enough to OpenGL that there
> should be little or no changes needed in the lab.

Don't set your hopes too high. Even with software-only Mesa which at
least is quite stable, you will find that SGI has quite a few often
undocumented extensions to GLX/OpenGL which makes life hard if you
for instance want to use commercial Irix application with NetBSD X.


-- 
Soren