Bug#394716: TNL context is NULL

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:07 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> The original submitter has the GLcore module loaded unconditionally in 
> his xorg.conf file. What happens is:
> 
> 1) Xorg loads the GLcore module that has some tnl-related symbols
> 2) Xorg loads the r200_dri library for AIGLX, and this library also 
> contains the same tnl-related symbols
> 3) the dri module unexpectedly uses symbols from GLcore.
> 
> The fix is to comment out the Load "GLcore" line from xorg.conf, and to 
> add Option "AIGLX" to the ServerLayout section.
> 
> So, while this bug report is a result of local misconfiguration, I do 
> not close it now, because xorg can behave better. It should warn about 
> symbol conflicts between modules and refuse loading DRI modules for 
> AIGLX if GLcore is already loaded.

It should simply ignore requests to load GLcore explicitly, as that's
never useful.


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