On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, teunis wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > > > It'd be cool to have an accelerated X that runs under OpenGL...
> > > >
> > > > Thats GLX.
> > >
> > > Not exactly. I think he's asking for an "OpenGL target" for
> > > LibGGI, which would render everything in XGGI using GL primitives.
> >
> > Okay. I really like to see a OpenGL library that supports multihead and
> > has the nice modular features of GGI. So you could have one OpenGL library
> > where a app can run in X on one head and another app run on the console on
> > another head. This would be cool.
>
> it's possible in the OpenGL specs... sorta...
> OpenGL isn't designed for multiheaded but it's designed for multiple
> display perspectives. Not the same...
One thing I have always dreamed about is a GGIMesa extension of
the "multi" target which would accept multiple eye coordinate sets and
render each frame to a different sub-target using the different eye
coordinates. That should do it, right?
> > > GLX only renders its GL contexts using GL, and does all of the rest of
> > > its (2D) accels its own way, correct?
> >
> > Right? 2D X server/ 3D OpenGL.
>
> Nope. OpenGL == 2D and 3D target is what I was looking for :)
> X isn't part of the equation here unless OpenGL is running under X.
> (not always true :)
>
> Cute possibility -> Mesa/GGI as target for GGI.... (could it be done?)
Sure. In fact, an OpenGL target could render to Mesa, or GGIMesa,
or GLX, or Win32 GL, or....
Jon
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