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RE: SGI OpenGL SI libs updated
- To: "Andre Bleau" <andre dot bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca>, "Suhaib Siddiqi" <s_m_siddiqi at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: SGI OpenGL SI libs updated
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:34:05 -0400
> >
> >Suhaib
>
> I am now able to link my glut-based apps, thanks.
Good to hear that.
>
> Remark: there is already a GL directory in /usr/X11R6/include (from
> xfree-4.0-devel.tar.bz2); should the one in sgi-opengl.tar.bz2
> replace it ?
Your choice. The one in xfree-4.0, is default from xfree86 4.0 and is
actually Mesa3D, not SGI OpenGL.
> When un-taring sgi-opengl.tar, it refuses to overwrite files in
> /usr/X11R6/include (permission denied).
I cannot help you with this. It is your Cygwin setup issue, or your
Windows setup issue... has nothing to do with GL untaring.
>I renamed /usr/X11R6/include/GL
> /usr/X11R6/include/oldGL to un-tar succesfully; is that right ?
> There were
> 3 extra files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL from xfree-4.0-devel.tar.bz2:
> glxint.h glxmd.hg and glxproto.h .
>
Yes, even 2 more glxext.h and glext.h. These are the new from SGI OSS
with latest header modifications.
This OpenGL SI 1.2.1 and GLX `1.3.
> I tried to run my glut examples on Xwin; I got an error message
> saying that
> the OpenGL GLX extension was not supported by my display. I stopped Xwin,
> edited startxwin.bat to add -x GLX at the end of the Xwin line and rerun
> startxwin.bat; xwin crashed. Was is the status of GLX support in XWin ?
NO GLX support at the moment. OpenGL extension had been disabled at the
moemnt.
It is buggy and buggy like a HELL in XFree86 4.0, which caused a lot of
grief
for Linux users. Beside, we have to a lot of code modifications if we have
to support
DirectX rendering and GLX rendering both. Third, DRI will never work
through SGI
so why bother with software rendering , when you can statically link the glx
to your app
and run it. I have done it 10 times...
>
> BTW, I think that startxwin.bat should be updated to add
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin or something like it instead of
> \usr\bin\X11 which
> doesn't exists anymore.
No idea why \usr\bin\X11 got in startxwin.bat... \usr\bin is specific for
MSVC compiled
X...
>
> Another bug: I switched from Xwin to the Windows desktop using Alt-Tab;
> when I returned to Xwin, the keyboard was no longer working properly;
> either it was adding 128 to the ASCII value of what I was typing or it
> didn't type anything.
I made a note of this. The next release of xwin, under development will
a big step forward:
1) Better Win95/98 support
2) Multi-Windows
3) Better integration into Win32 desktop.
keep your finger crossed for a near future release... no date set for it.
>
> One last little thing. Should we worry about these messages in
> the Xwin CMD
> window ?
>
> scheduling timer: Invalid argument
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
No you should not worry. Just clsoe your eyes, and do not read when they
show up.
>
> I am using Windows 2000.
Me too. I am runing Win2K with SR1. Well SR1 is available only to few
selects
from Micrsoft so do not e-mail me where to get it.
Suhaib
>
>
> Regards,
>
> André Bleau, ing., analyste
> bleau@courriel.polymtl.ca
>
> Département de génie électrique et Electric Engineering and
> de génie informatique Computer Engineering department
> École Polytechnique de Montréal Montreal Polytechnic School