graphical Linux

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hello All,

I am going to work on a project that will rely heavily on OpenGL and Wine.

I wanted to get some of your opinions on which Linux distribution has the
easiest setup and install for dealing with OpenGL and Wine.

I will make a fresh install of the best latest version and build on it.

did try Mandrake once but the OpenGL did not seem to work with my

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lonnie

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[Chris Seddon]

Hey,
I've had no troubles with Wine and OpenGL while developing my 3d 
modelling tool. I've used both Red Hat (8/9) and Mandrake (9.x). Keep in 
mind you'll need to install the NVidia OpenGL drivers as the generic X 
drivers suck for 3D. =D When coding with OpenGL/Wine you cannot 
initialize OpenGL into a static window or any non-fullsize window 
because of an issue in Wine. One work around I've done is initialize GL 
to the main window of the program (so it renders full screen), draw your 
gui windows, then using glViewport change the viewport size to be your 
originally intended size. This will give the illusion that the rendering 
area is smaller than it really is, without having to really hack 
something together. Although it sounds complicated, it's dead simple and 
works like a charm! If you need a better explanation, let me know.

Chris

Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am going to work on a project that will rely heavily on OpenGL and Wine.
>
> I wanted to get some of your opinions on which Linux distribution has the
> easiest setup and install for dealing with OpenGL and Wine.
>
> I will make a fresh install of the best latest version and build on it.
>
> did try Mandrake once but the OpenGL did not seem to work with my
>
> NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Lonnie
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
> http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash

project David?

[Robert van Herk]

And what about their claim that they will "incorporate the OS into a 
browser", meaning that "an OS will become virtually useless?".

:-S.

Robert

[Lionel Ulmer]

> When coding with OpenGL/Wine you cannot 
> initialize OpenGL into a static window or any non-fullsize window 
> because of an issue in Wine.
> From what I remember on my investigations on this issue, if you want

windowed OpenGL working in Wine, you need to add the WS_CLIPSIBLINGS flag to
the window (or DC) that should be used for GL rendering. Otherwise, there is
a 'bug' in Wine's GL driver which makes the GL drawable invisible.

Lionel