aiglx + nvidia = missing text?

[Ian Malone]

On 26/04/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 22:39 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > On 4/24/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:45 +0200, Thomas Widhalm wrote:

> >
> > Actually, I think they might now.  nVidia released a new version not
> > too long ago:
> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8756.html
> > The Release Highlights mention many things about OpenGL, Composite,
> > GLX, etc.  They don't mention AIGLX specifically, but several things
> > seem to sound a lot like it.  I have not had time yet to install FC5
> > to try it out, but will soon.  Does anyone more knowledgable about
> > this know if these are the extensions needed by AIGLX?
> >
> > I think the fact that the OP was able to do something (and apparently,
> > most things with the excpetion of some text) with AIGLX suggests that
> > it is not unsupported.  He shouldn't get anything except an error
> > message otherwise, right?
> >
> > Jonathan
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=65928&highlight=aiglx
>

Seeing that thread's quite old, people wanting to know the moment nVidia
release a driver supporting AIGLX should watch:
<http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8756/README/appendix-s.html>
"The NVIDIA driver does not yet support the
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension."

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imalone