Re: dgl

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Rob Jenkins (robj++at++quid)
Tue, 27 May 1997 10:14:53 -0700


man dglopen covers this briefly. Also this is an extract from the SGI FAQs (
quite old now ), note the pointer to a useful Pipeline article:

Subject: -5- Why do I get DGL errors when I try to run a GL program?
Date: 20 Feb 1994 00:00:01 EST

  - There may be a problem with the DISPLAY variable or Xwindows
    permissions. See the previous question.

  - You may be trying to display on a non-SGI machine which doesn't
    have GL/DGL. (Most don't, yet.) Presently the only way around this
    is to buy a third-party GL emulator for the non-SGI machine.

  - DGL may be disabled in /etc/services and/or /etc/inetd.conf. The
    former file should have a line reading

      sgi-dgl 5232/tcp

    and the latter should have a line reading

      sgi-dgl stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/dgld dgld -IM -tDGLTSOCKET

    If either is commented out, remove the comment.

  - You may be trying to display on a machine with a much older version
    of IRIX. Try another machine with a newer IRIX.

  An article in the Jan/Feb 1993 Pipeline describes the above in great
  detail.

Cheers
Rob

On May 27, 4:29pm, Swapnil Shah wrote:
> Subject: dgl
> hi,
>
> this is not performer related question but general SGI platform Q.
>
> What is "dgl error : ........" ??
>
> -swapnil
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