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From: David M. H. <ho...@ci...> - 2000-09-10 17:40:29
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Dear Michael, I have followed your suggestions and I can now display Vis5D on my PC X-server. As you suggested, I have tried the Hummingbird Exceed 3D product which has the OpenGL library. That software installation got rid of the software error message Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "my sgi:0.0". I still received the hardware error message Error: couldn't get RGB, Double-Buffered, Depth-Buffered GLX visual! So I switched to a video card with hardware OpenGL as you suggested and now all works fine. The card I am using is a "64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (Dell)" product. Thanks for your help. Cheers, David Michael Böttinger wrote: > Hi David, > > if your graphics card offer hardware accelerated OpenGL you > may want to try out Hummingbird Exceed 3D: > (http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html) > This is a commercial X-Server software with OpenGL extensions. > > First of all: it works. > I have tried to run Vis5D on our Onyx2 with X-Display set to my > PC (PII 400 MHz, Diamond Fire GL4000 Graphics card, 10 MBit > Ethernet connectivity). Depending on the selection of visualization tools > (e.g. Isosurface, Isolines,..) the responsiveness of the 3-D-display is > not bad - but far away from anything you could get locally on the SGI. > But it works with my setup definitely better than pure software rendering. > > Best regards, > Michael > > At 02.09.00 11:43, David M. Holland wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have Vis5D working fine on an SGI (running IRIX) but then when I use a > >PC as an X-emulator (running Windows 98) to connect to my SGI > >workstation (which is trying to serve the Vis5D), I get an error on my > >PC X-emulator window as > > > >Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "fish.cims.nyu.edu:1.0". > >Error: couldn't get RGB, Double-Buffered, Depth-Buffered GLX visual! > > > >Any thoughts if I can display workstation-served Vis5D using a PC > >X-emulator? > > > >Thanks. -- David Michael Holland Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, 907 New York University, MC 0711 New York City, New York, USA, 10012 Title: Assistant Professor Mathematics Phone: (212) 998-3245 Fax: (212) 995-4121 Email: ho...@ci... Web: http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/~holland |