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I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, and using it through ssh, which means I don't have local GUI for it.

I need to run some command that requires GLX, but things aren't going well.

Xvfb :80 -screen 0 1400x900x24 -ac +extension GLX +render -noreset

If I execute the above, it says Initializing built-in extension GLX. And using vglrun(VirtualGL) targeting that(:80) as a 3D X server, I can see xdpyinfo says that GLX is there, although actually trying to use GLX ends with an error maybe because it cannot be a real 3D X server?

But if I do the following, there is no GLX (and of course GLX doesn't work when I replace xdpyinfo with my command):

xvfb-run -a -n 55 -s "-screen 0 1400x900x24 -ac +extension GLX +render -noreset" xdpyinfo

Am I understanding them in a wrong way?

Could someone please help me? I really need to use xvfb-run...

Thanks!!

UPDATE: I tried -e option for xvfb-run, and confirmed that it also prints Initializing built-in extension GLX. But it still doesn't work.

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Maybe your Ubuntu installation misses some OpenGL/GLX packages to be able to use GLX. You can try to install mesa-utils (OpenGL in the dependencies) and run glxgears and glxinfo to test it.

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