Have you done something unthinkable like, say, reading the patent? It's available from the USPTO website, you know?

I find a few things interesting... SGI applied for this patent in June, 1998. ...

a) Cherry pick whatever you need from the glext.h file found at the extension registry and put it in your own private file.

b) Make a private copy of that file and ship it with your project.

c)...

The whole extension mechanism is well documented. The spec files provide prototypes for new functions and new tokens. This file, glext.h, does not exist _anywhere_. There are OpenGL...

No, you don't. Please point to the relevant doc (chapter and verse), that says this file exists at all. I beleive you are trying to say something else, namely, you need to have a private copy of...

Actually it's very dependent on the driver version and on the format you use. Want to be sure which is faster? Benchmark at runtime.

your program is leaking displays.

Char 32 is space. You want 176, i.e. you want 145 elements. Does that help? You said you changed this, but you don't say which characters you can't print.

I hate to reply to myself, but I thought I should add something to that comment.



That's the portable and safe way of doing this. (Ok, ok, portable to OSes with dlopen, but if your OS doesn't...

Can we please have a FAQ, which is also correct, just for kicks?



The spec for ARB_get_proc_address says:



In plain English this means you should use glXGetProcAddressARB and...

You are asking a Windows question in a Linux forum. *hint*

Plug: http://glew.sf.net/

If by "OpenGL libraries" you mean the core OpenGL API, it doesn't change that often. Once a year is a rather optimistic statement. If you mean "how often do new...

Widely used GLU implementations on modern Linux distributions consist of a library with a C interface but implemented using C++. This means you have to use c++ instead of cc to *link* your programs,...

glewinfo output for a Radeon 9700 using these drivers

I've been looking for something that looks like a spec for superbuffers. Is there anything beyond the presentations at the ATI website? ...

Two triangles? "to" is a typo I guess.



That doesn't look that bad.



Looks ok, too.

You mean from your program? render, glFinish(); setup_pixel_transfer(); glReadPixels(...); and then use something in the Qt (I'm guessing "Layout" and "Designer" refer to Qt) API that takes a raw...

May I plug GLEW here? http://glew.sf.net/



GLEW solves that, too. And your original problem. And the problem you posted about later. :-)

Not yet, but I couldn't stop grinning after seeing this:



Either the driver is damm well tested or someone hasn't heard of NTP yet :-)

I'm blind, where did you read that the system has ATI chips? I know the information is correct, I just can't find it on the website. The closest I found was "off the shelf components".

This...

Because nothing actually guarantees that the symbols are exported or even available with their public names in libGL (or more correctly estated, in the libraries that get mapped when the program...

I'm not sure which drivers you are using, I'm guessing the DRI drivers, since you mentioned not liking NVIDIA's driver policy.

I don't think blender puts much stress on the card in terms of fancy...

Oh, no VP support yet, but it's cool nevertheless.

GLEW works on IRIX, too, and we'll gladly take patches to support more platforms. The only question is if glXGetProcAddress is available or not. If it is, it's straighforward. If it isn't, you...

Same as I :-) I wrote "Mb" not "MB".



Yes, my bad, I forgot a 2 somewhere.

Edit: Forgot a /

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I am curious... what number did you expect?

(2048*2048 texels)*(1 B/texel)*(1 MB/2^20 B)*(8 Mb/MB)/(10^-2 s) = 3200 Mb/s which is slightly under half peak. What's the speed of your memory...

How did you test? With your own stuff or Q3A/RTCW/UT/UT2k3?

People just assume you are running on Windows. They often give advise along the lines of "do this in MSVC++" or "in the control panel do that" or make references to WIN32's idiosyncrasies out of the...