Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Jason Galyon wrote: > >> Following the Xserver man pages, I started my Xvfb with a '- >> XFree86-VidModeExtension' (and tried with '+' as well. >> > > That doesn't work in general, only for specific extensions - it should in > fact, be returning a fatal error & refusing to start (at least it does for > me). The generic form is "+extension XFree86-VidModeExtension" or > "-extension ..." > > However, even if you get the syntax right, it won't make your program work. > The XFree86-VidModeExtension is not implemented in Xvfb, only in Xorg/XFree86 > itself Thank you very much, that is great to know (disappointing but great) :) > (the code is in the XFree86 DDX layer at hw/xfree86/common/xf86VidMode.c > not up in one of the common layers shared with Xvfb & other servers) - so > you'd have to modify the Xvfb code to add support for that extension, but > since > Xvfb doesn't connect to any monitors, the VidModeExtension seems pretty > useless. > > Here it is being utilized for opengl rendering in which it needs to know screen modes. Perhaps there is a better way to extract the needed information (resolution and depth I believe is all it needs).
fyi, this app is called Pyglet. -- Jason Galyon Silver Screen Tele-Reality, Inc. http://www.sister.tv | http://www.videocarlot.tv Phone: 972-855-3500 | Fax: 413-778-2146 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
