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Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:55:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > I would need access to the server, yes. I think that if Xvnc were
> > installed on the server, LDView could connect to that, and everything
> > would then be happy. (Xvnc is an X Server that's designed to be
> > connected to remotely via vnc. From LDView's point of view, there
> > would then be an X server, but Xvnc doesn't use a local screen at
> > all, so the web server is still happy.)
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> I just did a quick check on my own Linux box (a virtual machine,
> actually) with xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer), and that worked fine
> with LDView. Since xvfb is a standard part of the X distribution,
> it should be easy to install on most major *nix distributions.
> Installation of xvfb might have to be done by an admin, though.
Yeah we experimented with xvfb many years ago.
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=6478
There was some weirdness with the aspect ratio that was probably
caused by a bug in ldglite at the time. And there were some questions
about large image sizes, but it should be a viable solution for ldview.
I don't know why we ended up using osmesa instead. Perhaps to simplify
things by rolling it all up into a single process? Leaving xvfb
running might have been a bit of a drag on the server. Or maybe it
was just simply easier to build osmesa on the BSD system since it
didn't seem to come with X11 or opengl.
It's certainly a simpler rendering path without the X11 layer.
Have fun,
Don
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| (...) I just did a quick check on my own Linux box (a virtual machine, actually) with xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer), and that worked fine with LDView. Since xvfb is a standard part of the X distribution, it should be easy to install on most major (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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