[SunHELP] U5 graphics

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bob Minvielle wrote:

> I am trying to use programs that need openGL to run.

Do they just need OpenGL functionality, or do they require hardware
acceleration to give reasonable performance?

The PGX24 and PGX32 will both do software pipelined OpenGL.  Sun doesn't
"support" it on the 24 but it will use the dumb DGL driver.  Download the
OpenGL packages from Sun, install, and see if it performs suitably.  The
PGX32 will not be appreciably faster.

If you need hardware acceleration, you'll need a minimum of a Creator3D,
which won't fit in the Ultra 5 chassis.

-James