Hooray,
I finally got every piece to work, good mesa, good X, acceleration.. In
short: it runs like a dream come true :) I installed the XFree binaries that
came from XFree itself, linked the opengl drivers to mesa and wham!.. magic..
It runs at about 15 frames, more or less on my 266mhz/banshee system.. I must
note however, I haven't flown over high-scenery areas yet..
tnx for the information and tips about flightgear, everyone :-)
very very kind regards,
-xas-
On Monday 27 August 2001 17:21, you wrote:
> I am sorry to be late in my response, but during the week-end I have no
> E-mail. I used to have a Voodoo3 card that did not make me terribly happy.
> With XFree4.0 I have been able to get the 3D acceleration using the dri
> interface. But I lost the usage of the key F12 which is used to set up the
> heading in Autopilot mode. Also, my frame rate was mediocre (about 15 fps).
> Since you have a Banshee card, you will get the same problem.
>
> With my GeForce 3, I get 80-130 fps. Almost an order of magnitude! Also,
> note I gave wrong information. My gears run at 1300 fps and not 600 as I
> said.
>
> > ----------
> > From: pieter bonne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:07 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] plib + mesa problem (?)..
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > I'll explain what I found out..
> >
> > On Friday 24 August 2001 17:41, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > could you describe a bit more precisely your system. I am a bit
> >
> > sceptical
> > A month ago, I wanted to get DRI to work, so I started with upgrading my
> > xfree to the latest mandrake binary, mesa to the latest binary, my kernel
> > to
> > 2.4.7 but still DRI wouldn't work. then I went to #dri on
> > irc.freeprojects.org and there was a dude from redhat who was
> > making/testing
> > bleeding edge packages about dri, so I installed xfree, mesa and kernels
> > from
> > redhat and everything went smoothly from there.. He did however stress
> > that I
> > shoud use the specific version of Mesa (that he had built de XFree for, I
> > suppose).
>
> As I said previously, you are looking for trouble by mixing different
> distributions. I would really recommand that you buy (or download) a SuSe
> distribution. RedHat is notorious for its compiler breaking FlightGear.
> Also, it looks that NVidia is the recommanded brand in order to run
> flawlessly FlightGear. I know that the GeForce3 card is not exactly the
> cheapest, but I am pretty sure that you will be able to find a NVidia card
> for about 50.-$ (?) which will outbeat your Banshee.
>
> Personally, I always like solutions which are simple!
>
> > > (ii) For the moment, do not try to build FlightGear but instead try to
> >
> > make
> >
> > > Mesa and plib working properly. There is a good test called ./gears
> >
> > which
> >
> > > clearly shows if you are using 3D acceleration or not. For example with
> >
> > a
> >
> > > GeForce3, my gears "turn" at about 600 frames/second. To make this
> >
> > working
> >
> > > properly, one needs to be extra careful.
> >
> > I can inform you that gears runs at 300fps on my 266hmz with a banshee..
> >
> > :)
> >
> > However, the situation already changed a bit, people at plib lists told
> > me
> >
> > that the context initialisation error was actually a bug in the version
> > of
> >
> > mesa I was running. Remember how the redhat-dude at #dri stressed that I
> > would only get dri, using that specific version?
> > So I'm going to try to rebuild an older (or a newer) version of my
> > current
> >
> > mesa, in the hope that my DRI will remain operational.
> >
> > > Also as a remark, my SuSe7.2 distribution is more or less incompatible
> >
> > with
> >
> > > FlightGear. Officially, Mesa is supposed to disappear and to be
> > > replaced
> >
> > by
> >
> > > a new generation GUI. Nevertheless, I had to hack my installation, to
> > > remove that "new" technology stuff and put back Mesa. I installed the
> > > corresponding plib and I modified the file XF86Config to edit my
> >
> > X-Windows.
> > Interresting.. and what is this new technololy named? sorry, I'm a bit
> > curous
> > here.. ;)
> >
> > > When plib works PROPERLY, installing SimGear and FlightGear is quite
> > > straightforward.
> >
> > Indeed, compiling the plib test programs is first thing now..
> >
> > > Also, make sure that the base package is compatible.
> > >
> > > Yours
> > >
> > > JJ Malosse
> > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From: pieter bonne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 4:55 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [Flightgear-users] plib + mesa problem (?)..
> > > >
> > > > greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I'll explain what I experienced. To get my direct rendering to work,
> > > > I installed redhat packages on my mandrake system (the mandrake
> > > > packages weren't able to enable direct rendering for some reason).
> > > > However, I discovered that my headers and my libraries had a tiny
> > > > difference in version.after I had reinstalled my libraries to match
> > > > my headers, FlightGear
> > > > worked, but I lost direct rendering because these libraries were
> >
> > really
> >
> > > > needed by glide of X or something.. Now I have upgraded my headers to
> > > > match
> > > > my libraries and I'm recompiling tonight.. I'll keep you informed..
> > > >
> > > > goodnight!
> > > > xas
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not
> > > > until.
> > > >
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