Re: glut-3.7 install problem

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:00

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In <827ls09mhx.fsf@robin.eecs.umich.edu> Michael Hucka <mhucka@bbb.caltech.edu> writes:

>>>>>> On 29 Mar 1999, Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

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

>Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that the SX
>framebuffer is primarily an accelerated 2D framebuffer, without special 3D
>acceleration.  Thus, I wouldn't expect it to be effective for OpenGL, which
>is primarily a 3D API.

In that case, does anyone know if there actually are any Sbus 24-bit
framebuffers with 3d acceleration that's usable with either Sun's or Mesa's
OpenGL libraries?

I'm presuming there isn't anything that will also work with current SunOS
releases (5.6 or 5.7)..

Regards,

Craig.
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From: cd@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: glut-3.7 install problem
Date: 1999/03/30
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