Fix for GLXBadContext AND Re: bugfix for depth 24

['Jim C. Brown']

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:40:04AM +0100, James Weatherall wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> The effects you're seeing are due to bogus visuals reported by the current
> release of VNC Server Free Edition for Unix, due to problems in the standard
> XFree86/Xorg codebase against which it is built.  The latest VNC Enterprise
> Edition for Unix includes is fixed to report correct visuals.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 

Ok, I'll let the X.org maintainers know about this bug.

In the mean time, I found a patch against RealVNC that works around this (by
changing all the bogus visuals). With this, mplayer works perfectly.

Additionally, this includes a patch that fixes GLX support on -depth 24.

I was experiencing crashes of this sort:

$ glxinfo
name of display: :1.0
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
  Major opcode of failed request:  150 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  17
  Current serial number in output stream:  17

(Curiously, mplayer -vo gl2 worked while mplayer -vo gl crashed.)

With this patch, all opengl apps work as expected.

Any chance of seeing these fixes make it into RealVNC FE for Unix 4.1.2?

Patch is at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-June/008343.html

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