> Cheers, > > Most likely they will use S10 06/06 and nvidia drivers. But is it possible > to write > OpenGL applications if not all libraries are delivered by nvidia ? Do we > have any HowTo or > a tutorial about this for Solaris ?
Strangely I was just asking questions about OpenGL last night on the IRC channel and got little in the way of responses. I had just finished my install of S10U2 on an IBM dual Opteron unit which had an ATI RAGE XL or something like that, in any caseupon first boot I decided to login remotely via dtlogin to my Solaris 8 x86 server : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenGL.txt The info there shows me that indeed my display has the GLX and SGI-GLX extensions. I then thought that I could perhaps get glxgears running or something from the GLUT toolkit. No way on Solaris 8 x86 but no problem on Solaris 8 Sparc. Further example of the historical differences between the two architectures. Certainly Solaris 10 addresses that. In any case I was not able to get much done with OpenGL from Sun on Solaris 8 x86. Thankfully Ken Mays has the Mesa3D gear ( http://www.mesa3d.org/ ) all packages up from Blastwave ( http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/mesalibs ) which allows the FlightGear Flight Simulator to run etc etc. But what the heck is open really about OpenGL ? -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
