Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

2009-11-03 Thread Jon Elson
Brian Fahrlander wrote: >> >> > Well if you've gotten 10 with it ON, there's surely a problem. > Usually when my cards are at 10, it's off. I'm finding it's a matter of > both- a solid CPU to keep the data flowing, as well as a fast card to do > the rendering. > > I get 2000+ FPS

Re: [Flightgear-users] OT: choice of Linux distro for FlightGear

2009-11-03 Thread Sid Boyce
On 03/11/09 16:18, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: >> I haven't tried Flightgear on other than SuSE/openSUSE, their distro >> version was pretty useless, so I have always built my own. >> No problems with Nvidia cards, I tend to run on the latest vanilla >> kernels and I provide feedback

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

2009-11-03 Thread Jon Elson
Brian Fahrlander wrote: > J Bickhard wrote: > >> >> I get about 9FPS. 15 or so when I'm pointing at the ground or sky ;-) >> >> > Good news: that sucks SO bad, it doesn't suggest your card is bad, > but rather the rendering isn't turned on. :/ > > No, not at all. 1 FPS means no

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

2009-11-03 Thread Brian Fahrlander
Jon Elson wrote: > Brian Fahrlander wrote: > >> Good news: that sucks SO bad, it doesn't suggest your card is bad, >> but rather the rendering isn't turned on. :/ >> > No, not at all. 1 FPS means no hardware rendering. I have an old > Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440, > lspci -v seems to in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

2009-11-03 Thread Brian Fahrlander
J Bickhard wrote: > A 32MB card isn't enough? Geez. I'm getting a similar-spec NVIDIA card Oh, it'll work...and trust me: as a guy who (other than this one machine I'm on) every machine I have is obsolete in the eyes of Windows guys. A 32M card is like complaining how hard it is to get memor

Re: [Flightgear-users] OT: choice of Linux distro for FlightGear

2009-11-03 Thread Brian Fahrlander
Sid Boyce wrote: > I haven't tried Flightgear on other than SuSE/openSUSE, their distro > version was pretty useless, so I have always built my own. > No problems with Nvidia cards, I tend to run on the latest vanilla > kernels and I provide feedback on their driver, VirtualBox and any other > pack

Re: [Flightgear-users] OT: choice of Linux distro for FlightGear

2009-11-03 Thread Sid Boyce
On 03/11/09 01:23, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > Ed Greenberg wrote: >> Ron Jensen wrote: >> >>> I haven't flown keyboard in years. :D >>> > Yeah, I don't miss it, either. :> > >> I appreciate that flying keyboard is silly, but I discovered this in the >> office, where joysticks and t

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

2009-11-03 Thread J Bickhard
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > J Bickhard wrote: >> Needless to say, my computer isn't bleeding edge. 800MHz PIII with >> ~700MB RAM, ATi Radeon 7200 32MB video card. I can run flightgear, but >> it's like watching a slideshow (a very realistic slideshow, >> nonetheless