uhhh... HOW DO I INSTALL GLX VISUALS? CAN I AT ALL???
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 5:48 pm
by mrpi64
How the heck do i install GLX visuals to go with opengl? can i for the pi's OS (reccomended debian), or can't I? plz help me install them (if possible
)
thanks for any help,
mrpi64
Re: uhhh... HOW DO I INSTALL GLX VISUALS? CAN I AT ALL???
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:03 am
by ghans
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sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-swx11
I may have a confirmation that does indeed work. Speed is
unusable though , i guess.
ghans
Re: uhhh... HOW DO I INSTALL GLX VISUALS? CAN I AT ALL???
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:18 am
by jamesh
mrpi64 wrote:How the heck do i install GLX visuals to go with opengl? can i for the pi's OS (reccomended debian), or can't I? plz help me install them (if possible
)
thanks for any help,
mrpi64
Can you please avoid use of capitals in thread titles please - it's too shouty for those of us of a nervous disposition. This one would have been OK with just
"How do I install GLX Visuals"
Re: uhhh... HOW DO I INSTALL GLX VISUALS? CAN I AT ALL???
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:07 pm
by DaveDriesen
Hi,
The Pi uses a subset of OpenGL known as OpenGL ES (OpenGL for Embedded Systems). Make no mistake, OpenGL ES is very powerful.
However, GLX is not supported on OpenGL ES; GLX is purely an OpenGL extension to X.
(The OpenGL ES "equivalent" of GLX is EGL. I've not gotten around to meddling with it on the Pi).
What you're doing with swx11, is software rendering. That's ok, whatever works!
Dave Driesen
Linux dev and oldskool elite