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Most noticeable, no GL screensavers work. Whenever the random screensaver selector hits one that uses GL, it just prints an error ... gltext: root window visual 0x43 does not support the GLX extension.
Same thing happens if I try to run glxgears. Think maybe it'll eventually fix itself?
sid just went through a big xorg update and is very unstable at the moment. New xorg updates are in sid today that are causing a lot of problems over on the kanotix boards.
After a number of xorg updates, including several GL related libraries, this problem persists. I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to see if changing a few things would help but the 'reconfigure' ended with an warning message, 'Not replacing /etc/X11/X. It has been modified.'
How can I force that 'modified' binary file to be replaced? Would 'apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg' do it?
Now I'm really peeved. Went to the effort of reinstalling Debian, saving only my home directories, and still no GLX. Surely someone besides me has this problem.
yeah I have prity much the same problem, except mine is with the Nvidia Legacy driver. Till they fix it I think we're screwed
Since the problem seems to be with the Xorg update, isn't there some way to run X11 applications through the frame buffer? I swear I heard somewhere you could do that with xvfb. That would be a weird workaround since you wouldn't have a desktop, but at least I could run my GL applications.
Now I'm really peeved. Went to the effort of reinstalling Debian, saving only my home directories, and still no GLX. Surely someone besides me has this problem.
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