Launch OpenGL app straight from a windowless Linux Terminal

Question

How exactly would one go about getting an OpenGL app to run fullscreen straight from the terminal (Ubuntu Server 9.04)? I\'ve developed an application for visual diagnostics on

Answer 1

Well I am clearly not sure my answer might help you out.

Long ago when I was student, I manage to do so (launching an openGL app from a terminal only linux installation) by installing frame buffer. As long as I remember I needed to recompile my kernel (as framebuffer was/is a kernel module).

This was maybe 5 years ago on a debian distrib, and I don't know how does it work now for up-to-date debian distrib as Ubuntu. Maybe framebuffer is compiled statically in the binary kernel provided by default with Ubuntu. May be not. Maybe framebuffer is irrelevant now... Or I may be totally wrong and not remembering every details of my own adventure 5 years ago now ..

Have a look on Google ! ;-)

Hope it will help...

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Update:

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What is frame buffer ?
How to install it? Here or there