Re: [Update REQ 6061]: bit planes on X display on Linux

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Yes -- if you pick up the latest geomview distribution from
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-linux.tar.gz

it includes Tim Rowley's additions of 16-bit support for X geomview,
as well as lots of new features and modules.  It's also linked with
modern ELF libraries.

The new package actually includes two geomview executables.  If you use
"geomview -ogl" a.k.a. "geomview -OpenGL", it will use another version,
built with the Mesa OpenGL libraries, which is about 2x slower but
supports e.g. transparency and texture mapping.

I see you also have the Metro Link X server with OpenGL support.
We don't, so I don't know how it works, but I'm told their software OpenGL
implementation is respectably fast -- much faster than the Mesa one.
To take advantage of it, though, you'd have to rebuild geomview from the
source distribution at
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-src.tar.gz
which may not be worth the trouble.

As the version numbers suggest, these packages are in beta, but they're
close to final release.