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what is mesa?
Authored by: student on Jan 14, '03 03:49:50PM

there is unix server that i am trying to log into but it does not use native OpenGL but uses Mesa. apple's x11 does not use Mesa. what are the alternatives?



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what is mesa?
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Jan 14, '03 05:04:00PM

That shouldn't matter for most X applications - what goes over the network are sort of "API calls" - a generic interface to any X server. In fact, your Mac should inform the remote system what your X server's abilities are when you connect.

The only place I can see that this would be a problem is if you're trying to run an application on the remote box that uses Mesa (Mesa is a linux library for 3d graphics, BTW).



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what is mesa?
Authored by: student on Jan 15, '03 05:24:11PM

If you know about the crystallographic database in daresbury in england they use mesa to run programs such as conquest, vista and pluto to view crystal structures. does apple apple x11 capable of running mesa? is there a way to add mesa compatiblity to apple's x11?



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what is mesa?
Authored by: nmhansen on Jan 14, '03 09:58:38PM
Actually, Mesa is a native implementation of OpenGL for Linux and BSD...

And that should be no problem. I've written stuff for OpenGL on my schools Linux boxes, then "ssh -X"ed in and was able to run my program with Apple's x11.app. As long as you are using the quartz-wm, everything should work just fine (albeit slow)

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