You shouldn't have to provide a separate binary. I've not moved to the latest version on Linux, but that's not been a problem with using an nVidia card.
Over a year ago I installed dx on a RH6.2 system with a Matrox G200 and used the SGI OpenGL from the OpenDX download site. It worked fine with h/w rendering, but performance was poor. I then replaced the Matrox card with an nVidia Quadro card. This used the nv driver that comes with XFree86 3.3.x. It ran with h/w rendering, but not well. I then installed the drivers from nvidia.com, which replaces OpenGL with a version that leverages the hardware as has been discussed on the mailgroup. It works quite well. I've since upgraded to RH 7.0 and XFree86 4.1.0 and the latest nVidia drivers. It was all transparent to DX -- the same version from the initial installation. David Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 07/11/2001 10:50:40 AM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: RE: RE: [opendx-users] installing opendx 4.1.3 So if you build OpenDX the way you suggest with SGI OpenGL and then run on a system with the Nvidia setup, do you get the benefit of the true hardware rendering or should I provide a binary for both Nvidia hardware and non-Nvidia hardware? David >You do not have to make a softlink to install use --force --nodeps >For example >rpm -iUh opendx-4.1.3.i386.rpm --force --nodeps > >This sould install without checking RPM dependencies. > >As for as symbols are concerned, I think it will be a problem because >binaries are linked to libGL.so from nVidia which makes a dynamic call to >libGLcore.so.1. My versions of Opendx 4.1 for RedHat 7.0 were also compiled >at a workstation which had nVidia GeForce2 Ultra, but distribution to >public, installed SGI OpenGL in /usr/local and manually edited Opendx >Makefiles to link to /usr/local/lib/libGL.so >nVidia folks intentionally made libGL.so to depend upon libGLcore.so... just >a dirty business trick to convience non-nVidia users to buy their cards.... > >Suhaib -- ............................................................................. David L. Thompson The University of Montana mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Department http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/dthompsn Missoula, MT 59812 Work Phone : (406)257-8530
