Re: FW: Performer and XClients

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From: Marc Erich Latoschik (marcl++at++TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE)
Date: 02/13/2001 02:27:56

> 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.
As far as i know, the indirect rendering capabilities
of the linux driver are not fully implemented. I guess we
are talking about an nvidia linux box? I did some experiments
with that too and had the same problem.

>
> 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.

Well yes, but there is no cheaper sollution to have a development
station for an Onyx which only sometimes renders some frames (and
not in realtime) to make
sure the prog works ;). That at least was our goal...

>
> Sorry,
> Allan
>
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	bye
		Marc

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