Posted by Sven Gothel on Feb 06, 2014; 1:17pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Cannot-initialize-JOGL-on-Mesa-swrast-after-upgrade-tp4031458p4031483.html

On 02/06/2014 01:47 PM, Dolda2000 [via jogamp] wrote:
>> BTW, is 'libgl1-mesa-swx11' the right choice for software rendering in the
>> first place ?
>
> As far as I'm aware, for sure. :)
>
> What makes you think it isn't?

Dunno .. just confused w/ the many diff mesa packages
and it's versions.

>
>> I thought the gallium llvm provides software rendering .. hmm
>
> It does, indeed, through libgl1-mesa-swx11. It in turn uses Mesa's standard
> libosmesa, which is what implements the llvmpipe. I'm not sure if this is part
> of Mesa 8.0, however; it may be a later development.

'libosmesa' .. for all offscreen rendering .. hmm, so fake GLX .. right.
Indeed .. never tested this configuration.

So it would be great to have it working indeed.

~Sven