On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:33:15PM +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> Hello, did you know that remote display of OpenGL apps is partially
> functional with DRI ? At least the client side works ! I'm currently running
> FlightGear on a Linux PC against an SGI Octane functioning as X terminal.
> Performance is not bad - at least better than running FlightGear native on
> the (low speed) Octane :-)
> I don't know _why_ this works
because you're not using DRI.
DRI essentially for Xserver-side stuff. The X server is on the SGI.
DRI is not involved here. You're just using a libGL.so that knows how to
talk the GLX extension protocol over the wire.
> Running FlightGear against OpenGL libraries compiled from the identical
> source tree against a DRI based Radeon X server does not look that nice.
> Running the same stuff against Octane X server instead looks as everyone
> loves it ;-)
Which means theres a bug (or two :-) in the DRI radeon stuff. no surprise
there.
> P.S.: gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1, xfree86-3.4.0
***** Amazing! ;-)
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