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Re: Text does not work in Linux (ATI/glx)

To: Erik Simon <esimon@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Text does not work in Linux (ATI/glx)
From: Tom Flynn <flynnt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:18:27 -0800
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Erik Simon wrote:

> Hardware:
>   PII 400
>   ATI 3D RagePro AGP (used as PCI by XF86 with driver Mach64)
> 
> Note that I had to disable pixmap/font caches to be able to use glx.

That's correct for the RagePro driver.

> 
> The text (SoText3) does not appear in my programs. Here is what I get:
>   @@Created GLX Context..
>   invalid data type to GLX_data_size: 0x1407!!
>   invalid data type to GLX_data_size: 0x1407!!
>   invalid data type to GLX_data_size: 0x1407!!
>   invalid data type to GLX_data_size: 0x1407!!

Hmm, I'm not getting that error.  What file are you trying to view?  I'm
currently writing from an ATI RagePro based Laptop using the utah-glx
drivers.  I'm using the 0.10-pre1 tarball and viewing
/usr/share/data/models/simple/text3.iv

> I got the same error when I tried to redirect the display from a SGI
> running the same code to my Linux display. I guess there might be a
> bug in GLX, since the text works fine with Mesasoft, but this doesn't
> use the hardware acceleration of my card, which is sad.

Well, given your description, it does sound like a bug in Utah-GLX (though
can't say for sure without tracing down the error myself).  

First, if you haven't already, I'd try the 0.10-pre1 tarball.  
If that didn't work, I'd try compiling the utah-glx code with a more
recent version of Mesa (say 3.2.1 or 3.4).  If that still fails, it would
help if a sample file (or code) that reproduces the problem was provided.
Perhaps then, the problem could be isolated down to the OpenGL call(s)
utah-glx is having a problem with.  And then an appropriate bug could be
filed with that project.

hope that helps,
tom

> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Erik Simon
> erik.simon@xxxxxxxx
> 

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