OpenGL software rendering

[Phillip Neiswanger]

Hello,

Has anyone tried OpenGL software rendering with Nate Robins tutorial 
programs located here:  http://www.xmission.com/~nate/tutors/tutors.zip

I get a black background and the menus seem to be working, but that's 
it. Sometimes the programs produce areas of randomly colored pixels. 
However, if I then load the kernel module for my graphics card (Voodoo 5 
5500) and restart X so I get hardware acceleration then the programs 
produce appropriate output.  Currently, I'm learning GL programming 
using software rendering because the dri voodoo driver has a problem 
with colormaps.  Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else experiences 
similar problems with software rendering.

My system is using the following:

AMD Athlon classic 850Mhz
EPOX EP-7KXA motherboard
Voodoo 5 5500 vid card
FreeBSD 4.7 with my own configuration
XFree86 4.3.0 packages from packages-4-stable
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phil