[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4064: NVidia OpenGL undefined reference to glXGetProcAddress in SVN14639

[Pekka Jääskeläinen]

On 10/8/07, Paul Catchpole <paul at paulcatchpole.co.uk> wrote:
> It looks like your NVIDIA drivers are reporting GLX 1.4 but don't
> actually support the required defines. This doesn't look like a MythTV
> bug. On the thread you linked, someone from NVIDIA confirms [as of then,
> 2005] that the method glXGetProcAddress()  is only present in 1.4 but
> <1.4 the ARB method should be used instead.

I got the same problem in a Feisty machine. I investigated it a bit
and if I recall correctly,
the problem was due to some of the headers coming from Mesa, some from
the NVIDIA driver, thus the new MythTV video code got wrong code
enabled as Mesa reported 1.4 and NVIDIA supports only 1.3 (or vice
versa) and the actual linked NVIDIA GLX lib didn't provide the
functions MythTV supposed it to do.

I got MythTV to compile by forcing certain #define-blocks to be
selected through hard coding and didn't have time to come up with a
proper solution.

However, this was a clean Feisty installation without any extra
drivers installed, I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been a problem for
more people.

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--PJ