Re: opengl for framebuffer

[Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:36:12PM +0100, tomas carnecky wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I'm looking for a opengl library for the framebuffer devices.
> I found an project (http://fbdri.sf.net) but they released only one 
> tarball,
> and that was about two years ago. Anyone knows another project?
> 
> I think there is a port of the XFree86 xserver to the framebuffer,
> but I don't want to use this large bunch of applications and libraries,
> just to get opengl working on the framebuffer.
> 
> Long ago, I had the idea to write a collection of libraries to make 
> opengl 3D
> acceleration avilable without a xserver or framebuffer. It works now 
> (somehow).
> There exists a _really_ small documentation 
> (www.dbservice.com/tom/graphics.html).
> 
> I'd like to know what you think about it.
> 
> PS: I'm not subscribed to the list, so please send me a copy.

There are 2 possibilities:

mesa standalone + dri: http://www.mesa3d.org/fbdev-dri.html

mesa gl software only: http://www.mesa3d.org/glfbdev-driver.html

I am using successfully mesa+dri on a radeonfb.

-solca



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