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- Subject: Re: [AD] 4.3 system and display drivers
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:38:38 +0100
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:19 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-12-06, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just so nobody reading the commit logs wonders what is going on, I put
> > my 4.3 system and display driver playground to the temporary SVN branch
> > "4.3-xdummy-system".
> >
> > In the last days, I got it to run a modified exnewapi, without using the
> > old 4.2 system or gfx drivers at all, and using OpenGL to do the
> > graphics.
>
> Note that your code expects GLX 1.3, whereas my X server seems to only
> support GLX 1.2. At least, on my system AllegroGL falls back to the
> non-use_fbconfig case (see x.c). Anyway, it's nothing to worry about
> for now.
>
Yeah, I'm hoping to merge in AllegroGL somehow, and of course the
current X11 driver. My idea so far is to have a flag AL_OPENGL to
al_create_display, and each display driver should make OpenGL available
if it gets the flag (and if it can get an OpenGL context).
--
Elias Pschernig