From: Jenny Zhao (zhz++at++dandan.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 04/19/2000 11:03:20
On Apr 19, 1:42pm, Jason Rappleye wrote:
> Subject: Re: PF Linux on SGI 320 PC
>
> Hi,
>
> Quite a while ago someone mentioned that Performer was demoed on SGI PCs
> running Linux at SIGGRAPH this past year, and asked if the drivers used
> there could be released. Is there any chance that will happen? I realize
> that they are not production quality, but I'm sure there's people out
> there that would be interested in doing development on them.
Unfortunately the answer is no. SGI is not going to release any hardware
accelarated OpenGL drivers on 320 box with Linux.
Internally, we have gone through many rounds of discussions over this
topic and the decision is pretty final.
There is soon going to be a new OpenGL workstation which will have hardware
accelarated OpenGL. It will run both NT and Linux. Performer Linux will be
optmized to run on that workstation.
Look for our press release in the near future.
> Jason
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, devrim wrote:
>
> > > I assume some people are running Performer on their SGI PCs. These, of
> > > course, have their own special version of NT. Do they run normal Linux
> > > (e.g., Red Hat 6.1)? And what is the "SGI Linux ProPack" I've seen
> > > reference to in the report on ITEC 2000?
SGI Linux ProPack is a set of SGI custom RPMs with value add changes to the
kernel and system daemans.
Check out http://www.sgi.com/software/linux/propack/
> >
> > There is no driver for the 320 graphics for linux yet and possibly there
> > will not be any. I would really like to hear that someday an SGI employee
> > would come up and say "surprise ! I got the drivers for 320". The result is
> > that there is no hardware accelaration of OpenGL on the 320 box with linux.
> > But it is possible to run linux and type ls. There is a how to describing
> > running linux on 320 somewhere on the SGI site.
> >
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> Jason Rappleye
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>-- End of excerpt from Jason Rappleye
-- Jenny Zhao zhz++at++engr.sgi.com 650 933-5091 IRIS Performer Manager
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