Re: glut-3.7 install problem

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:00

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Hi Rachel,

I installed all the stuff manually following the lead of Sun's OpenGL
packages, and now ssystem-1.6 runs fine, giving me a dismal result of
between 2 and 5 frames per second using the default configuration and
object maps. That's with the on-board SX framebuffer, SunOS 5.6, 200+ meg
of RAM, and a pair of SM-71 CPU's.

I wonder if the Mesa OpenGL libraries would give better performance than
Sun's libraries? Is anyone able to offer a comparison using similar
hardware to what I'm using?

Sigh - if only there was an OpenGL library set for Sun's which took
advantage of all the hardware capabilities of the SX framebuffer in the
Sparc 20's - then the performance would be much better.

I guess I'd need to get a Creator-3D card in an Ultrasparc machine if I
want hardware-accelerated OpenGL applications.. sigh.. Sun's lack of
effort in the graphics arena is catching me out again.. 8-)

I'm sure the SX framebuffer hardware has acceleration features that aren't
used.

Regards,

Craig.

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From: Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: glut-3.7 install problem
Date: 1999/03/29
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