I know for a fact that when I ssh from my Ubuntu partition to the remote machine the application works without crashing. However, when I use windows 8 and Cygwin X the crash occurs for the same application. I will install the debugging tools and report my findings to you.
Thanks for looking into this! -Octavian On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 24/04/2014 23:45, Biris, Octavian wrote: >> >> I am attempting to run an opengl application remptely to a ubuntu >> linux machine from my windows 8 machine. >> To do so I start the cygwin console, call startxwin. >> Running glxinfo | grep OpenGL returns the vendor of my graphics card, >> NVIDIA. >> >> glxinfo |grep OpenGL >> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation >> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 580/PCIe/SSE2 >> OpenGL version string: 1.4 (4.4.0) >> OpenGL extensions: >> Then I ssh on the ubuntu machine using -X -C as the parameters. >> When attempting to start the application the console reads >> extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0". >> Afterwards, the cygwin/X server crashes and I have to restart it.I >> attached the log from >> /var/log/Xwin/XWin.0.log > > > Thanks for the bug report. > > I'm afraid that the log doesn't contain enough information for me to > identify the cause of the crash. > > Can you install the xorg-server-debuginfo package and try again? > > I also have been working on a tool to automate sending better crash > information using minidumps. If you would like to try that, download it > from [1] (anonymous ftp) and put it into /usr/bin and reproduce your crash > again. > > [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/xorg_cygwin_crash_reporter_gui.exe > > >> Does cygwin/x support running OpenGL applications remotely? Am I >> missing something? Do I have to install the mesa-utils libraries on >> the remote machine? > > > Yes, this should work. > > I'm not entirely clear if the 'extension "NV-GLX" missing' message is a > warning or an error, but according to the internet it seems to be due to > having a Nvidia libGL installed on the remote machine, so if all else fails > you might look at uninstalling the Nvidia proprietary driver and libGL, and > using mesa instead. > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/