Re: opengl terminal driver (was povray terminal driver)

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:56 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> Normally that is true, but when the program (X11 in this case)
> writes directly into hardware and system memory, as the DRI extension
> does, then no.   If you (the glut library) send incompatible commands,
> you may corrupt the system/hardware itself. The poor guy in the middle
> (the X server) is an innocent/unwilling accomplice who does not have
> perfect knowledge of what you sent or what effect it will have on the
> hardware. 

Fair enough. I'm not doubting what you say, I was just wondering if
there was something more going on. As I understood it, GLUT, is just a
set of utility functions built on top of openGL and X11 (or whatever)
and doesn't in itself do any direct messing with anything.

But I don't really have much experience in this matter.

Rob
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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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