[ydl-gen] freeglut problem on YDL5/PS3

Jonathan Bartlett jonathan at newmedio.com
Wed Apr 4 10:50:16 MDT 2007


Amos Tibaldi wrote:

> Hello,
>    I have installed YDL5 on the PlayStation3 and I have compiled a 
> program that uses freeglut and mesa that should display some windows 
> with images. Unfortunately at the console there is an error saying:
> freeglut: unable to create direct context rendering for window '...
>  
> I have succesfully executed glxgears and it works fine;
> what could I do to find out what the problem is?

I haven't used GLUT in a long time, but my guess is that you've 
requested hardware rendering, while the PS3 only has software rendering.

Jon
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