opengl on the console

ChimpFace9000 · 05-19-2003, 12:47 AM

is there any way to get my opengl app to run on the console without X? i figure it would run alot faster without the requirements of X. it uses SDL so i thought it might work but when i run it from the non-X console it get an error about no available video devices.

koningshoed · 05-20-2003, 04:26 PM

I can give you two answers, the sarcistic one and the one I'm going to give. No.

OpenGL is a graphical API, and as such it only runs in a graphical environment. And no, the X requirements is not that bad - as a matter of fact - it seems that X performs at least 40 % better on any kind of accelerator cards than any version of windows on the same card.

Funzo · 05-21-2003, 01:14 AM

If you're interested in running OpenGL apps in the console, you may wanna look into DirectFB. Its a console Framebuffer based system and allows you run some X apps. I haven't played with it in a while myself, but it seems to have come a long way.
www.directfb.org

koningshoed · 05-21-2003, 03:04 PM

Looks cool. Wasn't aware of that one, so sorry, the answer is in fact yes. I think I'll look into it. Plus (I read quickly so I might be wrong) it seems that directfb supports sdl too.