Ah, thanks for the redirect, I’ll look there. Sean
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:51 AM Matthieu Herrb <matth...@herrb.eu> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 03:52:52PM -0700, Sean Suchter wrote: > > > Hi xorg-folks - > > > > > > Thanks for all the work you do that allows the rest of us to use X11. > > > > > > I came across an issue today when trying to use Xvfb on a headless Linux > > > server. I couldn't figure out why Xvfb would start,but have no > framebuffers > > > available. (glXGetFBConfigs would always return NULL). I finally (after > > > several hours) figured out that the problem was the lack of > > > 'swrast_dri.so', which I'm guessing is a software raster driver. Once I > > > figured out that I needed this library (again, several hours), the > > > forthcoming fix was trivial: > > > > > > I'm using Centos 8, and I easily found the package that provides it: > > > > > > % dnf provides '*/swrast_dri.so' > > > ... > > > mesa-dri-drivers-19.3.4-2.el8.x86_64 : Mesa-based DRI drivers > > > Repo : @System > > > Matched from: > > > Filename : /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so > > > ... > > > > > > Once I installed mesa-dri-drivers, everything worked. > > > > > > My suggestion is to make xorg-x11-server-Xvfb depend on mesa-dri-drivers, > > > since it obviously wants to use this provided library. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Your analysis is correct. > > > > However, X.Org doesn't provide the binary packages, nor do we provide > > the data used by various vendors to make their packages. So this > > suggestion needs to be sent to the maintainers of the CentOS package, > > using https://bugs.centos.org/. > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Matthieu Herrb > >
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