Re: openGL2

From: Alexis Cousein (al_at_brussels.sgi.com)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:47:01 +0200
To: Khalid Schofield <oums0246@crow.linux.ox.ac.uk>

Khalid Schofield wrote:

> Hi,
> it seems that from peoples comments I should install openGL2. What ver and
> dist do I need. There are loads of versions for irix of openGL API, multi
> pipe, optimiser, performer, shader, volumizer, vizserver, etc etc . All
> I'm looking for is the gl2 dev drivers so I can use the graphics
> enhansment to view movies via mplayer -vo gl2
>
You don't need to -- that's just another version of the players OpenGL
libraries, IIRC. There are no (stricto sensu) OpenGL v2.0 drivers for
these machines, for that matter ,and the only OpenGL drivers you'll get
are the ones that come with 6.5.x eoe.sw.gfx.

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