[scilab-Users] Scilab 5 and non openGL X11 servers

[Stephane Mottelet]

Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> a écrit :

> Le jeudi 07 mai 2009 à 16:42 +0200, St?éphane Mottelet a écrit :
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I finally managed to compile Scilab 5.1.1 on our Linux Centos server.
> How did you do that ?
>
>> It seems that Scilab is not able to cope with non OpenGL servers (a
>> warning is given that the drivers of the graphical card does not
>> support OpenGL). Are there plans to use a deprecated X11 mode ?
> Using the vesa driver should fix your problem.
>
>> Here at work everybody uses the machine through VNC; so nobody
>> will be able to use Scilab 5. Too bad.
> Funny architecture, can I ask why ?

Easy. Many people in a University, and only one performant server
for computations. Do you know a better way (e.g. a Freeware X11 server
supporting OpenGL for the clients) ?

S.

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> Sylvestre
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