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- From: stefans@bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How display a GL application on remote X server ???
- Message-ID: <stefans.721485845@bauv106>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 12:44:05 GMT
- References: <toepfer.721390795@du9ds4> <1992Nov10.162134.28809@aston.ac.uk> <1dopuhINNrm@gap.caltech.edu> <1dp2ajINNhj8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen (Germany)
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- akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin) writes:
- >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?
-
- >Not unless you have a third-party implementation of IRIS GL running on
- >your Sun. (And even then it might not be possible; I don't know
- >whether any of the third-party implementations support DGL.) For
- >information on IRIS GL for Suns, contact Dupont Pixel Systems at
- >800-542-1484 or Nth Graphics at 512-832-1944 (npgl@nth.com).
-
-
- >In article <1dopuhINNrm@gap.caltech.edu>, rickert@cco.caltech.edu writes:
- >> 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.
-
- >You're correct that there is not yet an OpenGL implementation available
- >for Suns. However, the original poster is looking for an IRIS GL
- >implementation.
-
- >Nth Graphics is working on OpenGL for Suns. I would guess that other
- >companies are doing so, as well.
-
- Or, if you can't wait or don't plan to port to OpenGL and your application
- doesn't rely to heavily on special GL features, try to compile and link
- with vogl.
-
- Stefan
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- Stefan Schwarz University of the armed forces
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