[NTLUG:Discuss] half way off topic - SGI server and Linux client graphical library problem

[Chris Cox]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
> 
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>>     (a) dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable - 
>> x.x.x.x:0.0
>>     (b) dgl error (default init): default dglopen(x.x.x.x:0.0,4) 
>> returned -13
>> (3) SGI's answer is that "The DGL protocol that supports the IRIS GL 
>> remote rendering is proprietary to SGI and the only interpreter for it 
>> (dgld) runs only on SGI workstations. This is why you are seeing this 
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> 
> As it says in #3 there, you must have have a DGL server (in the sense 
> that you have an X server locally) to do that.  This is not something 
> I've ever tried to do (I had SGI's on my desk some years back), but 
> unless you can find a DGL server for Linux, you'll never make it work.
> 
> Options:
> 1. Try to find a DGL server for Linux.
> 2. Get a small IRIX machine to sit on your desk to run that app. (and 
> the flight simulator :-)
> 3. Change apps, say to "xosview", which should run on IRIX too and does 
> use the X protocol.

I wonder if VNC will map the direct rendered info across the wire??
I don't know what it would take to move VNC to IRIX though.