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RE: Xfree and OpenGL
- From: David Komanek <xdavid at aragorn dot natur dot cuni dot cz>
- To: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:17:39 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: RE: Xfree and OpenGL
Thank to all people who sent answers to my problem. I think, we can close
this thread just now, after you told me OpenGL, and GL are two different
things and after you confirmed I'll will never be able to send some SGI
apps to non-SGI display.
Thanks again.
David
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> Most (NOT ALL) of those management utilities on SGI (IRIX) are in
> fact not OpenGL applications. Thay are GL and they wont run under
> Xfree86, in fact under almost all X-servers. you will get error "gl
> error display. remote display does not support gl". GL is SGI
> propretary extension. For example if you try to display jot on a
> Linux or Solaris, you will never work. You MAY remotely display SGI
> applications liked GL libraries, only if you but SGI hardware with SGI
> version of RedHat Linux installed on it. From Windows, most of the
> time you are up in the air if you are trying to an application which
> uses SGI GL exntension.