[Dri-devel] Diagnostics App

[Andrew M. <amc...@ya...>]

Well, since I've stuck my foot out in the door...

I've started some initial work on the diagnostics app,
which is presently some large modifications to
glxinfo, with a few added sections. Here's the basics
of what it does:

 *Checks to insure that the GL version number matches 
 current CVS or XFree release.

 *Checks permissions of relevant device files, also
checks to make sure relevant devices exist.

 *Checks to see that rendering method is direct.

I'm also considering having it run a basic GL app, ala
gears to do a final check that everything works.

My initial thought was that perl would be a good
language for this thing, but then I realized that many
people don't have the right modules to do GL stuff in
it. I am undecided whether or not to break it up into
a test suite, or keep it as one simple .c file. I am
trying to insure that no OS centric stuff leaks its
way in. If anyone has any ideas, further diagnostics
that it should perform, flame, thinks its not worth
it, or wants to let me know they don't real care,
please give me a line. :)

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Andrew McCall - amc...@ya...

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