Re: Cooperative Linux

Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald-hMeZAl7WFGgaBlGTGt4zH4SGEyLTKazZ@public.gmane.org> Tue, 4 May 2004 23:08:03 +0200 (MEST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
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Jon Smirl wrote:

> CoLinux is interesting because it lets you run Linux on Windows without having
> to reboot Windows or reformat your disk. It's an excellent way to introduce
> Windows user to the world of Linux.
>
> CoLinux might be a good place to demonstrate the power of xserver on OpenGL
> since CoLinux programs can access the Windows OpenGL implementation.

Afaik CoLinux currently uses Cygwin/X as output display. The linux can be
seen as headless computer which displays on a remote X11 server.

If you want to access the OpenGL layer from windows directly from linux you'd
have to build a bridge into the CoLinux kernel.

On the other hand the OpenGL support of many video cards is only poor. Some
even have none and a Mesa OpenGL driver must be used which maps the OpenGL
calls to apropriate Direct3D calls.

bye
    ago

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