Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Sivakumar.Shanmugasundaram at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Does any one knows what is the status of OpenGL support for either
>> Xorg or Xsun running through Xvfb? Is it even possible?
Xvfb on Solaris is currently implemented as a shell script which starts
Xsun with special arguments to specify virtual framebuffer, null mouse,
and null keyboard. There is no Xorg version of Xvfb at this time.
> I _suspect_ that you will get software-driven OpenGL with Xsun, but
> possibly only on SPARC platforms. I have no idea about Xorg, though.
Right - the GLX extension module for Xsun is only provided for SPARC,
since the SPARC graphics group which makes it never saw a benefit in
proving one for x86. For Xorg, if running S10U1 and later, Mesa
is provided - but that's pure software and not accelerated in all S10
releases so far. The first Mesa hardware acceleration comes in snv_52
for i845->i915 series Intel graphics, but you wouldn't see that in Xvfb.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
