Xfree and OpenGL

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:27:28PM +0200, David Komanek wrote:
> 
> > > dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable - meda:10.0
> > > dgl error (default init): default dglopen(meda:10.0,4) returned -13
> > > 
> > Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't have the DGL extension. If you do an 'xdpyinfo'
> > on your SGI box, you'll probably see it.
> 
> Eh, I thought, DGL is SGI name for OpenGL. Sorry.
> 
I think you'll find DGL is IrixGL which pre-dated OpenGL, but still
supported on SGI boxes.

Did you do an 'xdpyinfo' on the SGI box ? Did it list DGL ?

> > I suspect you won't be able to get this app working on anything but
> > SGI boxes.
> 
> O.k., I'll trz VNC if it can handle it on the copy of local display. Not
> Xfree related anymore.
> 
VNC is probably your only hope.

Alan.