On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:51:26 +0800, Harry wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> Hello again Arnt, > > As you would have guessed I am working my way towards debian live as > per your advice previously. > > > For now I am leaning my way around Debians way of doing things. Rather > pleased as I have just compiled todays SVS against OSG 2.8.8.3 (as > advised by Thorsten) on Lenny and it appears to run quite nicely. It > was however a long haul, quite a few apps from backports and where > ever else along the way. I had not been near a kernel rebuild since I > put a soundblaster card to RedHat3. ..I ditched SuSE-5.2 for RH-5.2 before I learned to insmod the sound card driver. ;oD > A lot of mucking around to get the "nvidia" module loaded and driver > running, a new learning curve along the way. But that gives me some > debian "grounding" before I start to build my image files ..aye, and most of these things are easier with Sid or Squeeze. > This box will take over all of the server duties from the suse box > and be a platform for building my live boot images. ..another reason for the latest stuff, is GCC-4.5 and 4.6 are noisier about warnings and errors, where the earlier compilers are (too?) silent. FG-git builds fine with GCC-4.5.2-1, so I'm headed for GCC-4.6-20110116-1 or whatever it is tonight. ;o) > My FG machines are all the same Nvida card and Intel mother boards to > this one. ..a mono-culture that may introduce FG bugs like those in my screenshots?: https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings ..a way to weed those out, is install and run xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and libdrm-nouveau1 alongside your Nvidia drivers so you can check your FG work and flog x.org into beating Nvidia. ..no, I'm not even sure are FG bugs, it _could_ be my laptop's video, or the radeon driver, all I can say is Debian's FG-1.9.1 and earlier looked just like your screenshots, Debian's FG-2.0.0-2 flickered wildly with Imperial German WWI camo canvases changing every frame, and FG-git is fine with only some planes flickering or funny shade colors, one of them is FG's default C172P. > To be honest I installed mesa but not sure if was the correct one, so > many apt-gets and dpkg commands in one day! > > I will let it run the updates to sid over night and see what happens > in the morning. > > No big issue to wipe the system and start again with a minimal text > system and upgrade to twm and an xserver from from there, if teh > upgrade is not sucessfull because of something I have installed. ..aye, but yet another reason you will love Debian Live, one of the reasons it is this good, is how Debian developers _hate_ reinstalling or losing uptime, on kernel upgrades, we "no longer" reboot, we now load the new kernel into ram, and then "hand over the box to the new kernel." ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
