From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 01/30/2001 14:06:25
Well network bandwidth limitations and X protocol overhead would hose
performance anyway even if the "server" (X reverses client server model
and the desktop client is the X server) was fast.
Cheers,Angus.
Allan Schaffer wrote:
>
> On Jan 30, 8:48am, Darren Wenn wrote:
> > Sent this a few days ago so this is a resend:
> > Please reply if anyone has nay success using Linux
> > as an xclient of a performer app running on an Onyx,
> > I'm looking for what combination of machines work.
>
> This won't work (due to a bug), I can't recall the exact details but
> there's an incompatibility between the IRIX & Linux versions of GLX
> that prevents apps using OpenGL from being displayed across the
> systems.
>
> Though I'll say, even if it worked you probably would discover you
> don't want to do this in a Performer application anyways, performance
> would suffer greatly (due to network lag) and the rendering would
> only be as capable as the client workstation.
>
> Sorry,
> Allan
>
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