Utah GLX was a project aimed at creating a fully free and open-source basic hardware-accelerated 3D renderer using the OpenGL

rendering API This is a glossary of terms relating to computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and comp ...

on Linux kernel-based operating systems. Utah GLX predates

Direct Rendering Infrastructure The Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) is the framework comprising the modern Linux graphics stack which allows unprivileged user-space programs to issue commands to graphics hardware without conflicting with other programs. The main use ...

, which is what is used as of 2014. John D. Carmack worked on Utah GLX.

History

File:Linux graphics drivers 2D.svg, 2D drivers inside of the X server File:Linux graphics drivers Utah GLX.svg, Indirect rendering over

GLX GLX (initialism for "OpenGL Extension to the X Window System") is an extension to the X Window System core protocol providing an interface between OpenGL and the X Window System as well as extensions to OpenGL itself. It enables programs wishing ...

, using Utah GLX File:Linux graphics drivers DRI early.svg, early

File:Linux graphics drivers DRI current.svg, Finally all access goes through the Direct Rendering Manager File:Linux graphics drivers DRI Wayland.svg, In Linux kernel 3.12 ''render nodes'' were merged and the KMS driver was split off. Wayland implements direct rendering over EGL/ GBM

References

External links

Utah-GLX Homepage

Historical view at OpenGL and Direct3D
Free 3D graphics software Free software programmed in C Graphics libraries Graphics-related software for Linux Linux APIs {{unix-stub