[Wine] Re: Wine message re glx - what can I do about it?

[David Dawson]

Daniel Skorka wrote:

> David Dawson <gobble_em_up at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am getting the following message from the stripsaver2 install and
>> wondered if this affects other programs with graphics:
> 
> It affects anything that uses OpenGL or Direct3D in that it will not
> work.
> 
>> wine: creating configuration directory '/home/dave/.wine'...
>> err:wgl:wgl_initialize_glx  glx_version as 1.2 and GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
>> extension is unsupported. Expect problems.
>> 
>> Is this end-user fixable, like by updating a glx library or something?
> 
> In theory, yes. It would however require to update the X server or the
> graphics driver or to use a different graphics card.
> 
> Daniel

OK Thanks. I'm considering upgrading from Sarge to Etch and perhaps it will
be fixed with that. I understand than in Etch, a switch has taken place
from XFree to Xorg. Are there Wine issues with Xorg?
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-- Dave Dawson