quartzgl->opengl->accelerated video? (curious clueless luser)

Ben Donley mol-devel@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:50:11 -0800


Howdy y'all,

I somehow doubt that I thought of something y'all haven't thought of, 
but I figure I'll ask anyway.

Would it be feasible/valuable to make MOL render via opengl on linux 
(windowed or fullscreen)?  Would there be a way to allow MOSX 10.2 on 
MOL to render plain opengl via some kind of pass through from quartz 
extreme?  That is, would there be a way to get quartzgl graphic 
acceleration for MOL?

I'm not sure if I'm making sense, and I've never played with opengl.  
It just seems that since it's a clean, well known API, there might be 
some convenient way to leverage the feature.  It might be valuable for 
computers that are not quartzgl compatible.

Of course, it might be totally impossible, too much work, or not 
interesting to the MOL developers.  I'm just curious.

Regards,
  Ben