Question regarding openGL screensavers (with xorg ati driver)

[Robin Laing]

Andy Burns wrote:
> Running current rawhide, with xorg drivers for my ATI card, I have 
> xscreensaver  + extras + glextras installed, regardless of whether I use 
> xorg vesa drivers, xorg ati drivers or xorg ati drivers with EXA 
> extensions I can't get any of the openGL screensavers to start they all 
> give messages similar to ...
> 
> X error in glplanet:
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  143 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>   Serial number of failed request:  111
>   Current serial number in output stream:  112
> 
> I was beginning to think this might only be expected to work with the 
> ATI proprietary drivers, however yesterday I was tunneling X over SSH to 
> my laptop running cygwin/X and I noticed that the openGL screensavers 
> all worked that way (and with quite an impressive speed considering the 
> tunnel was over WiFi)
> 
> Is it expecting too much of the current xorg drivers to support GLX (I 
> thought MESA should at least step in as a software renderer as last 
> resort) or should I bugzilla this?
> 

Sorry to say that I won't be much help.

What ATI card?

I have not touched an ATI card since I purchased a new computer and 
got rid of the card 20 days later.

My experience says it will depend on the card and the version of the 
driver used.  Search the archives as this has been discussed before. 
Contact ATI which will be a total waste of your time if my experience 
says anything.