I have a comment/question on this old topic. Please forgive me if it has been previously covered; I could not find it in the archives.
We run a Sun (Solaris 7 with a pending Solaris 8 upgrade) with no display and Linux boxes on everyone's desk as an X terminal. All of the X clients run on the Sun. The other day I went to install openoffice on the Sun and it grumped about missing libXrender.so and the fonts (an ugly fallback?) looked awful. Our Linux boxes are RENDER-ready, but despite searching high and low, I cannot find the missing library for Solaris in a binary format. Here's what I think is going on. I think that the libXrender library is a client-side library. I also think that few (no) shops are trying to run render in a mixed platform environment. Most people run the client and server both under Linux and all is well. I am not blessed with that situation. I think I found the sources at Xfree86 and will attempt to compile them and install the library on the Sun box and hopefully openoffice will run ok. Will this work? Are there any other problems I will run into? Thanx in advance. Sincerely, Marty >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:06:47 -0500 >From: jason petrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: [Render] XFt on Solaris >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 >List-Id: XFree86 Render Mailing List <render.XFree86.Org> > >I have been using Xft on my linux machine at work and like it very much. >However, my home machine is a sparc, and I am using Sun's Xserver. > >Anyone have an idea what the chances of other X vendors adopting Xrender >anytime soon are? > >Barring that, can anyone speak from experience about running XFree on >solaris? Are there any areas in particular I would be taking a step back? >I do a bit of OpenGL development and need 3D acceleration. > >Thanks. > >-jason >_______________________________________________ >Render mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
