---- Reported by johnpreston 2004-10-20 17:48:25 ----

The GLCanvas.canCreateOffscreenDrawable() function returns true even when
pbuffer support is not available as with Mesa Library drivers.

On a Linux Fedora Core 2 box runnign Xorg with using the 'ati' driver which uses
Mesa libraries, GL vendor=[Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org], GL version=[1.2 (1.5
Mesa 6.1)], GL renderer=[Mesa GLX Indirect], pbuffer support is not available.
Yet canCreateOffscreenDrawable() returns true.

I need this to return false so I can implement a Java2D workaround for off
screen buffering on hardware that does not yet support pbuffers.



---- Additional Comments From kbr 2005-02-23 14:41:06 ----

*** Issue 113 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***



---- Additional Comments From kbr 2005-02-23 14:45:21 ----

The Windows port of JOGL has been fixed to return true for
GLCanvas.canCreateOffscreenDrawable() only if the WGL_ARB_pbuffer and
WGL_ARB_pixel_format extensions are available.

The X11 port already checks to see whether GLX 1.3 or later is available when
deciding if pbuffers are supported. As far as I understand it, any GLX
implementation claiming to support 1.3 should support pbuffer creation.




---- Additional Comments From kbr 2005-04-30 07:21:53 ----

Although the code in question (on the X11 side) hasn't changed, I'm marking this
as fixed because (a) the Windows code has been fixed and (b) I believe the JOGL
code is as correct as it can be without adding additional error handling for
buggy GLX implementations. The GLJPanel works around the lack of pbuffer support
at a higher level by catching GLException during pbuffer creation and falling
back to using pixmap rendering. The application here could do something similar.




--- Bug imported by sgothel@jausoft.com 2010-03-24 07:46 EDT  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 114 at https://jogl.dev.java.net/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=114

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