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Hello, I have been trying to figure out how OpenGL works with
X. Basically this is what I think
know: If you have drivers from your video card manufacturer then
they usually supply an OpenGL library with all the appropriate OpenGL
functions. If you do NOT have drivers from the manufacturer then you
either do not have hardware acceleration and use the So now for what I don’t know: When I installed slackware 9.1 how
did I get the GLU library? Is it
something that came with XFree? I don’t believe my video card
manufacturer included it. Also what is the purpose of GLX, and how did that get on my
system? Is it the same thing as
Utah-GLX? What I would really like just to understand the
architecture, is some form a diagram that shows how all the different libraries
communicate together. There seems
to be a fine line between these: OpenGL Libraries, I don’t know why this is so hard for me to
understand. Is this confusing to
anyone else? Samuel Ace Winchenbach |
