Re: [gNewSense-users] xfont-core and GLX Public License

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:15 -0500, Kevin Dean wrote:
> *** This message is intended for developers and those willing to
> handle breakage for testing. This is NOT intended to be followed by
> average users. You have been warned. ***
> 
> Karl and I have been looking at the xserver-xorg-core package because
> we've already determined that the GLX Public License is non-free. I've
> removed the non-free code from the package and rebuilt it to liberate
> it. These packages can be found on my site at
> http://www.foreverdean.info/kevin/downloads/gnewsense/ and they are,
> as follows:

Note these packages are for gnewsense 1.0, not 1.1 - you will need to
downgrade your existing xorg package, but you should still be ok :)

unless kevin beats me to it, i'll upload some packages to
http://gnewsense.maincontent.net/ somewhere.

> 
> xdmx
> xdmx-tools
> xnest
> xserver-xorg-core
> xserver-xorg-dev
> xvfb

xserver-xorg-core is the only required package. (installed by default)

> 
> In addition, corresponding source code for these packages can be found
> in the sources directory in that same location.
> 
> These packages have glx disabled. This means installing these packages
> will cause a lot of breakage with some programs. I know for SURE that
> Blender refuses to start and certain screensavers fall over dead.
> Exactly how serious this change is has yet to be seen but my virtual
> machines can boot and display many GUI applications with these new
> packages.

You should see output similar to this when running `glxinfo` :

address@hidden:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

> 
> -Kevin

-- 
Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au