[FreeNX-kNX] Support 3D

[Florian Schmidt]

Hi,

the nxclient for windows is based on the cygwin x client for windows so if
your 3D app is working with cygwin it should also work with a later nx
client (you can also patch your nxclient with the latest cygwin dll files).

cheers,
Florian

2009/10/27 Alastair Johnson <alastair at solutiontrax.com>

> On Tuesday 27 October 2009, marco freschi wrote:
> > I am quite new with freeNX. I have a java 3D application installed on the
> >  linux (redhat) server. I did some tests using as client NX another linux
> >  machine and it works nice, it means the application shows all the 3D
> >  effects. Using the same server I tried to use a Windows machine as
> client
> >  NX, but everytime I tried to use the 3d I get the error OpenGL 1.2
> >  .......you require at least GL1.3 etc. Basically I think the problem is
> in
> >  the emulation (data from server to the client) because normal 3D
> >  application can run locally on the windows machine without problems.
> >
> > How can I solve this problem?
> > I tried to use Exceed-3d as a test and I realised it works with the same
> >  configuration, but buying exceed + exceed 3d is very expensive.  IS
> there
> >  something similar for NX
>
> NX is a compression protocol for X, so the Windows client has to bundle an
> X
> server. It sounds like the bundled server only supports OpenGL 1.2 while
> Exceed-3D supports 1.3 or above. On linux the client just uses the local X
> server which usually has good OpenGL support these days.
>
> You could try xming or xorg/cygwin in place of Exceed as they _might_ have
> better OpenGL support than the bundled xorg/cygwin.
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