I am not very familiar with X so I don’t know. Creating Pbuffers seems to be a very touchy operation. As you can see from a couple posts up sometimes it fails with no error code. That isn’t supposed to happen. It is really quite frustrating. Are you using a ATI card? They seem to be a little more fickle than nvidia.
[quote]I am not very familiar with X so I don’t know. Creating Pbuffers seems to be a very touchy operation. As you can see from a couple posts up sometimes it fails with no error code. That isn’t supposed to happen. It is really quite frustrating. Are you using a ATI card? They seem to be a little more fickle than nvidia.
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Yes, it is an ATI 
GKW: would you be willing to put your PBDemo into the jogl-demos source tree under the BSD license (with your copyright)? It would be useful to have more examples like this.