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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I do not know if there is any way to create an OpenGL context on a GPU without first connecting to an X server. (I prefer to remain blissfully unaware of such details.) Regardless, I am quite sure that VTK does not support creating such a connection (yet).<BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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On 2/24/10 4:11 AM, "Biddiscombe, John A." <<a href="biddisco@cscs.ch">biddisco@cscs.ch</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Question : Supposing you have no Xserver running but you wish to take advantage of hardware acceleration. Is it possible to create an offscreen buffer for each pvserver without the X server. We’d like to share one GPU between 4 cores, but without starting X.<BR>
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Can either OpenGL or Mesa (but using GPU not software) be told to do this.<BR>
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