Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Enrique Vaamonde wrote: > >> I second the request for trying to get to the bottom of this issue. I >> reported a few weeks back that both 0.9.8 and cvs would segfault on me >> whenever I flew around the default San Francisco at night. It works fine >> in that area on daylight, and works fine when flying at night in other >> areas. I also am unable to use the newer 3D clouds, although shadows do >> work. >> >> I have a laptop with an ATI Mobility 9000 with 64MB, and this problem >> has been around for the latest 3 binary driver releases for x.org (I'm >> using debian sid / unstable). >> >> I have started to lurk into the rendering code to see if I can spot >> anything, but it's been quite a learning curve :) >> >> > > We should be careful to keep issues separate. You are talking about > something that has affected you for both v0.9.8 and v0.9.9. There is > a separate problem for people that has just been introduced with > v0.9.9 ... > > And for what it's worth, people over the years have reported a variety > of glitches with ATI hardware running open-source drivers. That > doesn't mean you should run them, they open-source driver testers need > bug reporters too, but just understand what you are getting yourself > into. > > Regards, > > Curt. > Hi Curt, sorry if I wasn't explicit enough in my post: I am running ATI's closed-source binary-only drivers, not the open source ones. When I mentioned I was beginning to dig into the rendering code I meant simgear's, not x.org's code.
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