Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 13, 2012; 8:41am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Ubuntu-11-10-64bit-and-AWT-vs-NEWT-tp3654908p3656100.html

On Friday, January 13, 2012 05:26:24 AM Martin Hegedus [via jogamp] wrote:
>
> After diving into this some, it seems that the program freezes within the
> native routines when calling glXMakeContextCurrent.
>
> So if I use AWT it doesn't work and if I use NEWT it does work.
>
> I'm not really positive what Ubuntu OpenGL library it uses, but I did down
> load Mesa and the header files belong to version 7.6 of Mesa.

Yes, I also experienced some freezes @ glXMakeContextCurrent a long time ago,
but not w/ latest JOGL and latest drivers though.

Wiki -> Bugreport: http://forum.jogamp.org/Problem-with-GLProfile-and-jogl2-rc2-td3447491.html#a3447546

~Sven