On Thu, 26 May 2016 21:56:21 -0400 Christopher Barry <christopher.ba...@earborg.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 26 May 2016 23:43:05 +0000 >"Cook, Rich" <coo...@llnl.gov> wrote: > >>The point here is that today it is being *disabled* and in the future >>it is completely *going away.* Anyone care to argue with that? I'd >>love to be wrong about it. >> >>> On May 26, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Adam Jackson <a...@nwnk.net> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 09:14 +0200, Laurent Lamalle wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have just discovered, through the x11-us...@lists.apple.com >>>> mailing list, that Xorg deprecated some software component (IGLX?) >>>> necessary for remote OpenGL viewing. >>> >>> As I just said: >>> >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-May/058072.html >>> >>> Another awkward thing about this, I suppose, is that on OSX the X >>> server is started implicitly on demand and there's no reasonable way >>> to configure things like command line options. And, that there's no >>> direct rendering support to be had on OSX. So we could probably >>> reasonably change those defaults for that platform, since the >>> opportunity for privilege escalation is lower as X11.app runs >>> unprivileged. >>> >>> - ajax >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support >>> Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg >>> Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >>> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >> > >This thread got me thinking. > >If it does go away, possibly this could be useful for what you're >doing? https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl > >I'm also interested in how you're using iglx. Can you point me to how >it's used? > >I have certain software that must use opengl, and it runs on windows. I >had to stand up a separate box just for that application, as I run >Linux everywhere else. I could not make it work in a KVM VM due to no >opengl capability in KVM (I won't use vmware). > >Do you think with either iglx, or maybe the software linked above this >would work for my needs, and then I can get rid of this extra physical >box generating heat and sucking electricity for a single application? > > >Thanks! > >-- >Regards, >Christopher Barry pardon the self reply, but I don't think either will help me unfortunately. -- Regards, Christopher Barry _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
