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Re: OpenGL & Linux XServer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Edmonds)
Sat Dec 7 10:56:35 1996
From: deane@io.org (Dean Edmonds)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI Mailing List)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:25:18 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: deane@io.org
Rob Fletcher writes...
>
> I have guys using XFORMS on SGI systems, but displaying via an
> X-Server on Linux (they can't afford a real SGI!).
>
> However, when they come to use an OpenGL canvas (glcanvs in v0.81)
> the program barfs saying that Xlib: Server does not support GLX
> extension.
>
> So, is this a problem, i.e. can it be fixed if they get an update
> to their Linux XServer software or whatever ...
There are commercial XServers for Linux which support the GLX extensions.
Metro Link's `Metro OpenGL' (about US$169) is one. Evans & Sutherland used
to have one as well, but I don't know if they still do.
I'm running into this problem as well, except that the apps that I want
to run on the SGI are pre-packaged, so I don't have the option of converting
them to Mesa. I've been toying with buying Metro OpenGL but have not as of
yet done so as I am also considering buying an SGI O2. So if you finally get
a solution, please let me know.
Thanx.
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