Subject: Re: XFree86 & GLX support?
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/13/1999 00:34:23
Richard Rauch writes:
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstood Andrew.  I thought that he was saying that the
> sources from the URL were only integrated with Mesa 2.5, and since we were
> one 3.0, it was better to get GLX from some other source (I took him to
> mean that GLX is integrated into our branch of XFree86 on -current, but am
> not entirely sure if that's what he meant).

The 'README' file still says Mesa-2.5, but it appears the code supports
Mesa 3.0.  I just built the snapshot at http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
with the Mesa in pkgsrc, so it does work.

No, GLX isn't integrated, a package for it would be nice though, for
people that don't want to wade through all of the various X 3D pages
to find out what is needed.

> Maybe I'll give it a whirl next week.  (^&  (I wish that I had a second
> machine; then I could play with toys on it without worrying about
> jeapordizing my main ``workhorse''.)

Well, I managed to hose up my X server with the snapshot, so you will
definitely want some way to telnet in remotely when you are testing
X server related stuff. 


-Andrew
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