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- From: bhickey@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Bruce Hickey)
- Subject: Re: How display a GL application on remote X server ???
- Message-ID: <BxIHJB.5py@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- References: <toepfer.721390795@du9ds4>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:49:58 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- toepfer@du9ds4.uni-duisburg.de (Hansjoerg Toepfer) writes:
-
-
- >Hello !
-
- >I have remote access to an IRIS Indigo.
- >Is it possible to run remote GL applications with display on my SUN under X11?
-
- No, I don't believe so. To make use of the distributed graphics library you
- must display your output on another SGI device.
-
- >I always get the following error:
-
- >dgl error (TCP connect): Connection refused
- >dgl error (default init): default dglopen(du9ds4:0.0,4) returned -127
-
- You'll even get this error on a remote SGI machine unless you enable to
- the dgl in the /etc/services file.
-
- >Thanx, Hanjo
-
- This brings up an interesting point, what type of code is sent to the remote
- display? Is it some type of encoded gl which is processed by the display's
- graphics pipeline?
-
- Bruce
- --
- Bruce Hickey
- bhickey@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
-