Hi, I'm running vncserver 4.0 on an SGI IA64 Prism system under Linux, and viewing on a Windows XP laptop with free viewer 4.1. All works ok for the Gnome desktop and apps, and simple X apps, but OpenGL apps fail with "GLX extension missing". I see from the list archives this is a frequent issue - the GLX/OpenGL support appears to be easily available, but not on by default. I've searched the archives and there are lots of one-line fragmentary answers to this issue - "#define GLsomething" and rebuild - download xf4vnc - these look like possibly many hours of work and no guarantee of a solution ! :=) Can someone point to a comprehensive page with the full answer to this ? I'm assuming here the need for OpenGL to work on Linux/Unix is widespread, and easily done. Mesa and other free libs can easily provide the interface and rendering. It's a bit of a mystery why it's not default in Vnc, but everyone says that about their own area of interest :=) Many thanks. Here's my config: Server is vnc-server-4.0-0.beta4.1.4 Running on IA64 (Itanium2) under a RedHat based Linux. Gfx is ATI R350 cards (FireGL X2 variant). (8 cpus, 4 pipes) Viewer is 4.1.1 on XP.
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