[X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Fri Jul 1 13:19:08 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 07:10 -0400, brian mullan wrote:
> Ohhh... a big thing I also forgot to mention this IMPORTANT future
> use.
> 
> The $250 ($=US dollars) Nook Color tablet's GPU is the PowerVR SGX530,
> which is OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0. 
> 
> The Barnes & Noble android did not go all out with the "stock" drivers
> since it's sold as "just" an ebook reader after all... ), and did not
> provide support for OpenGL 2.0.
> 
> BUT... a kernel can be compiled with the correct drivers for OpenGL
> 2.0 and actually has already been done and is available.  
> 
> My Nook Tablet is running a ROM that already has OpenGL 2.0.
> 
> So although I've not tried Ubuntu 11.04 yet (I will soon) .. its my
> understanding of Ubuntu Unity that the OpenGL 2.0 support should
> enable the full Unity capabilities without having to 
> drop back to what Canonical is calling Unity-2D (or the classical
> desktop --- re gnome 2).
> 
> Brian
<snip>
Is it correct to assume that Unity is still using X and thus will work
with X2Go? Thanks - John




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