xserver on OpenGL

Otto Solares solca@guug.org
Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:27:50 -0600


On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:42:58PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> 
> > But right now, there are choices between various not-quite-perfect
> > alternatives:
> > 
> > 2) Duplicate one of the kdrive servers, but target one of the
> > embedded or linux-solo GL platforms.  This means we do without
> > pbuffers, and whoever runs this has to get linux-solo up and
> > running as well as X. 
> 
> My offer still stands to help work on this using the SciTech SNAP driver 
> architecture. We already have a complete OpenGL driver architecture 
> working on Linux console modes independantly of X (software right now, 
> but we are working on bringing up the Radeon hw driver based on the DRI 
> code). It would be real easy to add pbuffer support to our 
> implementation, but it would not really be necessary until you need to 
> use an offscreen buffer as a texture surface for a blending operation.

Does your API handles mode settings? via EDID/fixed info? outside X.

-solca