[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | A co-worker is installing Debian alongside NT on his new machine. | He has asked if Debian (in X11R6) can display a remote application | from an SGI machine that uses the OpenGL library. When we tried | to do such a thing on my machine (up-to-date hamm), it would fail | with many - Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "shroom.lanl.gov:0.0". | errors. I do have the mesa2g package installed, but I am not sure | that has anything to do with the solution to this problem. | Can such a thing be done? | | Thanks very much for any assistance, | | Paul Rightley
Well, not easily, completely, or freely, and what free capability there is isn't available as a Debian package, as far as I know. The free GLX project is spearheaded by Steve Parker. Take a look at www.cs.utah.edu/~sparker/xfree86-3d. On the commercial side you can look at Metrolink (www.metrolink.com) and Xi Graphics (www.xig.com). They both claim to have GLX extensions in their X Servers. None of them, as far as I know, have any support for hardware acceleration. Some of these issues are covered in the Linux 3Dfx HOWTO (http://www.ssc.com/linux/LDP/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html). Unfortunately I haven't had time to seriously look into this but if you do please keep me (and the list) up to date! Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
