[Mesa-dev] Software Rendering without X

[Brian Paul]

On 03/11/2013 12:44 PM, Ritvik_Sharma at Dell.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I don’t have any Graphic Cards that support OpenGL , so I want to
> perform software rendering with Mesa without X, DRM etc. Also can
> someone explain how are the functions for eg. glClear (_mesa_clear the
> actual implementation) are invoked without glx?

See the "Off-Screen Rendering" page on the website.  Or see the 
GL/osmesa.h header files.  There's some demo programs in the Mesa demo 
package in src/osdemos/

BTW, I'm actually on the verge of posting some patches which ports the 
OSMsea interface to gallium...

-Brian