After reviewing the information provided by the dl, I decided not to go down
that road. Were sourcing a Powerstorm 300 or 350 graphics card and will give it
a go. I think the opening statement from Octave sums it all up.
"This is not going to be fun."
Thanks to Octave Orgeron, Arno Hama and Bob Lang. I simply copied in their
replies.
My opening statement:
Compaq XP1000 running 4.0f
Application: Open3D
Compaq states the 8mb Elsa Gloria graphics adaptor is:
1) Not capable of high end 3D graphics
2) Not capable of displaying the GLX applications
Is there an OpenGL package that would emulate what the hardware cannot do.
++++++++++++++++++++
>From Octave:
This is not going to be fun.. I have a Elsa Gloria
card in both of my alphas at home and all I have to
say is.. atleast I get 24bit colour. As for OpenGL,
the Open3d package does not work with the video card
in question. I have compiled Mesa, www.mesa3d.org, and
it is not a good replacement. Mesa is designed to run
on Linux and more unfortunately.. take advantage of
only video cards like the 3Dfx and Nvidia chipsets..
cards that don't work on the Tru64 Unix OS. It will
compile.. you will only get software acceleration.. no
hardware. And it's buggy as hell in that mode. Even
the test programs included with Mesa, only half way
work. So it's not a good replacement at all. I've been
trying to find some used 4D50T's or better for my
alphas.. but so far the price has not been in the
happy range. If you are really in need of video cards
that work with the Open3d package, then I would get
them from either Aspen Systems or from Island
Computers. They are very expensive, which is normal
for most commercial Unix boxes. Even on Solaris, a
video card like the Elite3D is very expensive. The
other alternative is to get an SGI box to view/edit
the 3D graphics on and have the alphas do the
rendering. I wish that multimedia all together was
better on Tru64, since the Alpha is very good at
floating point calcs.. but that is the way of things.
>From Arno
Do you mean Mesa? There is a public domain OpenGL emulator
called Mesa. It can be compiled to practically any unix
platform. However, Mesa has some limitations. Mesa is _not_ an
Xserver extension, but rather a collection of "external"
libraries. This means you cannot use Mesa do display OpenGL
graphics from binary distributions, commercial OpenGL software
etc. You must have access to the source code to be able to
(re)link against the Mesa libraries. OpenGL application is
easy to port to Mesa and vice versa, provided you have the
sources.
>From Bob
Open3D is Compaq's implementation of OpenGL. It is licensed software...
You should read up on Open3D before you install it - there are many
version specifics relating to O/S version and the hardware that you are
running on.
Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 19:17:02 NZDT