Re: [Dri-users] Fwd: Dri-users digest, Vol 1 #19 - 2 msgs

[Randall H. <aa...@ip...>]

Gerhard den Hollander:
 |> From: Georg Steffers <ste...@ea...>
 |> for hardware acceleration of 3D i think you need direct access to the
 |> Hardware the OGL lib is written for and not only communication over the
 |> X-Protocol (only a guess, perhaps someone can correct me...).
 |
 |I've been doing this ever since Utah GLZ was released.
 |
 |You can run GLx aware programs on an SGI, and display on a Linux box, and
 |get accelerated performance , because the GLX protocol is hardware
 |accelerated ..

I think you might have misspoken.  There is no hardware acceleration
inherent in the protocol itself AFAIK.

 |if you run remotely from 1 SGi box to another you will get no
 |acceleration ..

Are you kidding?  :-)  Or is there some specific app you're talking about?

Randall