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- From: miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)
- Subject: Re: How display a GL application on remote X server ???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.203052.11637@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- References: <toepfer.721390795@du9ds4> <1992Nov10.162134.28809@aston.ac.uk> <1dopuhINNrm@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:30:52 GMT
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- In article <1dopuhINNrm@gap.caltech.edu>, rickert@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Warren Rickert) writes:
- |> In <1992Nov10.162134.28809@aston.ac.uk> morrisdj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (DJ MORRIS) writes:
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- |> >toepfer@du9ds4.uni-duisburg.de (Hansjoerg Toepfer) writes:
- |> >: I have remote access to an IRIS Indigo.
- |> >: Is it possible to run remote GL applications with display on my SUN under X11?
- |> >: I always get the following error:
- |> >:
- |> >: dgl error (TCP connect): Connection refused
- |> >: dgl error (default init): default dglopen(du9ds4:0.0,4) returned -127
- |> >:
- |> >: Could someone give me a hint?
- |> >:
- |> >I also had this problem. What you need to do is tell both machines that they have access to
- |> >the other's x-server. You do this using the xhost command. Best if you read the man page.
- |>
- |> Err, not quite.
- |> In order to run a GL application, you need a GL server running on the
- |> machine in question. To the best of my knowledge, there is not
- |> currently an OpenGL server running on the SUn ( by which I mean a
- |> commercially or freely available one, I am sure that people are working
- |> on it)
- |> Without that, you can only display X programs on he sun, not GL ones.
- |> Keith
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- you are correct. You can not display remotely GL programs but to SGI
- systems who understand GL
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- Miguel (Michael) J. Sanchez
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