From: bm@cs.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Subject: Re: TECH: OpenGL hardware support for Linux Date: 13 Dec 1995 03:48:46 GMT Message-ID: Organization: Columbia University From: bm@cs.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) >>>>> On 12 Dec 1995 08:43:15 GMT, Dieter Schmalstieg >>>>> said: Dieter> I am looking for a solution that allows to use OpenGL compatible 3-D Dieter> accelerator boards (for example with the GLINT chip) to be accessed Dieter> from Linux. While Evans & Sutherland offer OpenGL for Linux, there Dieter> appears to be no support for any third-party 3-D boards. Does anybody Dieter> know about a Linux/OpenGL or Linux/Mesa solution that supports any Dieter> reasonable prices (< USD 5000) 3-D hardware accelerator? Two companies are working on it. Both currently have software solutions, and both are "working on" hardware support for their OpenGL extension. The companies are Xinside (http://www.xinside.com) Metrolink (http://www.metrolink.com) FYI, I have the beta of the software version from Xinside for Linux (I'm using it right now) but can't say much more than that. I have run some programs on our SGI Indigo2 Extreme and displayed them on this Linux box (a lowly 486 DX 50 with a Diamond Speedstar 64 ISA video card) and it was better than I expected for software. Blair MacIntyre (bm@cs.columbia.edu), Graduate Student (Graphics and UI Lab) smail: Dept. of Computer Science, 450 Computer Science Building, 500 W 120 St. Columbia University, New York, NY 10027