[Xprint] Re: SuSE and Mesa/GLX...

[Egbert Eich]

This must be SUSE 8.2 or older as mesasoft was only required for XFree86 3 
which was dropped after that. 
There should be a link from the libGL.so.1 to the GLX version of libGL.
I don't know why it doesn't exist. 
There is a script that fixes the links. Do: 'switch2xf86_glx' to
set the links correctly.

Egbert.


Roland Mainz writes:
 > 
 > Hi!
 > 
 > ----
 > 
 > Is there a specific reason why libGL.so on SuSE tries to tranfer giant
 > images over the wire when the remote Xserver supports the GLX extension
 > ?
 > 
 > After some resarch I found that my problem is related to the issue that
 > SuSE uses "/usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.4.mesasoft" for "/usr/bin/libGL.so"
 > instead of "/usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.2.xf86_glx":
 > -- snip --
 > % ls -1 /usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.*
 > /usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.2.xf86_glx
 > /usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.4.mesasoft
 > -- snip --
 > This has two sideeffects:
 > 1. Using GLX on SuSE on a remote framebuffer _always_ uses Mesa which is
 > bad, esp. when you have a Sun ZULU framebuffer (XVR-4000) on the other
 > end which is much faster than anything on the Linux side.
 > 2. Printing using the OpenGL API via the Xprint server (which now
 > supports the GLX extension) results in transfers of _GIGANTIC_ images
 > instead if just the OpenGL rendering instructions.
 > 
 > Egbert:
 > Any idea how to solve that ?
 > 
 > ----
 > 
 > Bye,
 > Roland
 > 
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