Xgl page - http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Xgl

[Rogelio Serrano]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:41:30 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:35, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:51:27 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 February 2005 21:33, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > > > Im afraid nvidia users are out of luck. You need to ask nvidia for a
> > > > standalone opengl first. There is no way they will make a dri driver.
> > >
> > > Wrong.  Xglx works just fine under the nVidia drivers.  It doesn't run
> > > standalone yet; but then, that's true for the DRI drivers too (Dave
> > > Airlie's recent work on miniglx excluded).
> >
> > I see. I was thinking only of the standalone case, sorry. Well thats
> > ultimately where xgl is headed right?
> 
> Quite a bit of work stands between where we are now and being able to run Xgl
> standalone.  The goal is to do this work in a vendor-neutral manner so that
> people will be able to run Xgl standalone no matter what their driver or
> video card.  In particular DRI is not going to be a requirement here; it
> would be extremely foolish to require DRI, since at least two vendors have
> non-DRI GL stacks.
> 
> - ajax
> 
> 
> 

How do we do that? I think i have to start looking at nvidia binary
drivers and find out.

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