Kind of a newbie question...but
How does one render openGL without going through X?
Like if you just wanted to render full screen. Is this possible? Are drivers with HW acceleration available?
If not, are there any linux projects working on this?
I guess my question is: how do current linux games work? Do they require X?
There are OpenGL implementation that go through something like SVGAlib. You can also render to bitmaps with Mesa.Kind of a newbie question...but
How does one render openGL without going through X?
Of course, and this is most easily done via X, in fact.Like if you just wanted to render full screen. Is this possible? Are drivers with HW acceleration available?
The vast majority of them do require X, yes.I guess my question is: how do current linux games work? Do they require X?
I guess I should of asked how you do you do HW accelerated openGL under linux without using X?
[This message has been edited by linux-newb (edited 04-22-2001).]
I guess I should of asked how you do you do HW accelerated openGL under linux without using X?
No way that I know of, but I'm sure there must be some way.
If not, it might be an interesting project
>Like if you just wanted to render full screen. Is this possible? Are drivers with HW acceleration available?
Yes. But you do not need use X/fullscreen(DGA/DRI) functions directly
You can use SDL ( http://www.libsdl.org/ )
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SDL_Surface *screen;
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(1024, 768, 16, SDL_OPENGL|SDL_FULLSCREEN); //simple,portable.....
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or glut
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glutGameModeString("640x480:16@60"); //it do not work on my Voodoo3/X4 (hmm?)
glutEnterGameMode();
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P.S Why you dont like X?
I'm pretty sure glut still needs X.
Don't know about SDL though.
GLUT or SDL needs to control HW X&OpenGL on UNIX, something&OpenGL on MacOS, something&OpenGL on MSWindows etc....
i answer about fullscreen in X only
why not x? Seems very wasteful to need a windowing system with as much stuff as X to play a game.. Especially on a platform where you have lots of control (unlike win32)..
Anyway, its seems to be the only video drivers for linux (other than Xfree86) are ggi or kgi.
Has anyone here wrote an openGL program that renders to ggi (or any other alternative)? I could barely find any docs on their site.
thanks....
HW OpenGL present on X only, all other progect died de facto(as i know)
$xinit /usr/games/quake/q3a
i use it to run q3a on 32Mb: no window manadger, no multiple virtual screens, no .... - core X only(1.5Mb),- support 2 api for set free part of this memory? hmm....
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