[opensource-dev] An SL appliance...

2011-07-14 Thread Lee ponzu
Does the Linux viewer use X? If you DISPLAY SL on another computer running an XServer, does it behave OK. If so, could you assemble a small Linux host with a high end GPU and then DISPLAY SL on a different computer on the same local network? ponzu ___

Re: [opensource-dev] An SL appliance...

2011-07-14 Thread Discrete Dreamscape
If you want to use X forwarding, you're probably not going to be happy with the results. Machines on the same gigabit switch can even have poor performance just loading or refreshing a file manager. There may be other ways, and there are always remote desktop-type layers like NX.. Discrete On

Re: [opensource-dev] An SL appliance...

2011-07-14 Thread Arrehn Oberlander
In the past it has been possible to do accelerated openGL-over-X11 over a network with particular drivers, specifically some versions of the linux NVidia drivers. Still, it's quite exotic, limited, and probably would not result in the effect the original poster intended. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at

Re: [opensource-dev] An SL appliance...

2011-07-14 Thread Nick Groenen
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:06:22 +0200 Lance Corrimal lance.corri...@eregion.de wrote: If so, could you assemble a small Linux host with a high end GPU and then DISPLAY SL on a different computer on the same local network? no. see above. bye, LC Actually, using VirtualGL[1] this

Re: [opensource-dev] An SL appliance...

2011-07-14 Thread Armin Weatherwax
Lee ponzu schrieb: Does the Linux viewer use X? If you DISPLAY SL on another computer running an XServer, does it behave OK. If so, could you assemble a small Linux host with a high end GPU and then DISPLAY SL on a different computer on the same local network? ponzu so far I used yukon