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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: opengl
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:25:56
Message-Id: pan.2006.01.17.09.21.54.63985@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: opengl by Jack Cuyler
1 Jack Cuyler posted <1137362195.22285.7.camel@localhost>, excerpted below,
2 on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:56:35 -0500:
3
4 > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 08:54 -0700, Duncan wrote:
5 >> 3-D, OpenGL and the like, however, use direct-rendering. They require
6 >> that you be working on the same machine, due to the additional
7 >> hardware
8 >> requirements of 3-D. You can't forward OpenGL applications using X
9 >> forwarding, as you can with 2-D apps.
10 >
11 > At work, we routinely forward OpenGL over ssh. It works as long as both
12 > machines have the capability of rendering. One just needs to make sure
13 > both of the following options are enabled:
14 > ForwardX11 yes
15 > ForwardX11Trusted yes
16
17 New one on me. Thanks!
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21 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
22 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
23 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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