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Pardon me for showing how I feel towards such useful information. I was browsing the forums using a tablet pc and I found that. I found it so interesting that I made an effort to log in and post a comment. It probably took me 5 whole minutes to do that having to write, correct my handwriting, etc, yet you're asking me to post more more insightful comments.
It's the thought that counts :-)
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I looked at this a few months ago. It's usless as it doesn't support some openGL 2.0 functions that are used.
EDIT:
some = many
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Capabilites
Roughly speaking, OpenGL up to version 1.5 is supported (sorry, no 2.0 shading languages,) with the following exceptions:
* OpenGL 1.2 imaging functions related to histogram, min/max, convolution and colortables (like you really needed them...)
* Display lists aren't fully conformant: GL_COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE mode may not work reliably, specifically if there is a glGet* call between glNewList and glEndList which gets state that was set by a previous command compiled/executed inside the display list.
Roughly speaking (deja vu) GLX version 1.3 is supported, with the following exceptions:
* glXCopyContext
* glXCreateGLXPixmap
* glXDestroyGLXPixmap
* glXWaitGL
* glXWaitX
* None of the GLX 1.3 functions related to Pbuffers or visual configs are implemented.
Seems my memory didn't serve me too well. But still, seems too limited for usage here.
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Gamester17
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So you have not tested it yourself then? I meant for you to list things in XBMC that due not work due to OpenGL 2.0 requirements, ...you see I asked the XBMC Linux developers and if you do not count the visualizations/screensavers then it is not that many functions/features in XBMC that require OpenGL 2.0 so OpenGL 1.5 alone will get you a long way, (and when XBMC a require OpenGL 2.0 function it will fall back to software for that function if no hardware support exist).
So it is not useless.
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I'll try to get it installed tomorrow. I never played with it because I didn't have full opengl on my host machine until nvidia's latest drivers came out.