From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 01:38:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7776016A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E37643D53 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from [82.71.1.109] (helo=[10.0.1.33]) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EeN73-0002aJ-EA for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:25 +0000 Message-ID: <43827620.4030105@thingy.apana.org.au> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:36:32 +0000 From: David Gerard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <43825366.1070900@thingy.apana.org.au> <20051121181633.G9792@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121181633.G9792@tripel.monochrome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.71.1.109] Subject: SOLVED: GLX extension in Xorg? (5.4 and 6.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:27 -0000 Chris Hill wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, David Gerard wrote: >> I have a 5.4 and a 6.0 box here, both with Xorg installed from >> ports. When running xscreensaver, half the time they come up >> saying the GLX extension isn't loaded. And, of course, they >> can't run glxgears for the same reason. >> The thing is, I can't find which port installs this extension. >> Is there one? > In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I have the following: > Section "Module" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" Uh. Buh. Could I just take my Dumbarse Award? Solution to my problem: If you want GLX to work ... it helps to uncomment the Load "glx" line! That was it - that was the whole problem. Now both machines are cranking away the ol' glxgears very happily. I fully expect xscreensaver to show me many new and wonderful things as well. (Three years I had that error ...) - d. *thud* *thud* *thud*