Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:25, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > >>Confirm. Although I got so mesmerised by the images that I forgot to time >>it. >> >> >>>6. After 3 minutes 47 seconds (+/- a couple seconds) bb segfaults. It >>>happens right before the section with the toroid. > > > hmmm, actually here it goes beyond that. it finishes the toroid part, blasts > something with a tank thingy, which seems to spiral to nothing, shows briefly > yet another face, and then fills the screen with the letter 'Q' and seg > faults. >
I had originally thought bb only segfaulted with 48000 Hz audio; it turns out that with the default it still segfaults, just later on (where you noticed). > for completness, tryed it in an xterm (instead of a konsole) and it went > _much_ smoother and faster ! but it crashed at exact same location. > > tryed in 32bit mode to see whole demo, which actually went smoother _and_ > faster still !! I'm not sure about konsole vs. xterm (I'm using rxvt), but I have just come upon another problem with bb on amd64: it isn't getting built with X11 support. bb has an X11 driver that is _much_ faster than the console drivers. I poked around and found out that the bb package isn't getting X11 because aalib doesn't have X11. I don't know why. For some reason the aalib packages on alioth aren't built with X11 support, but when I build my own packages they have X11. I'll start a new thread for this in a few minutes. If you haven't seen bb with the X11 driver I highly recommend it. I just uploaded aalib debs with X11 support and a bb deb with X11 and Lennart's fix to: http://fatooh.org/files/aa-bb-amd64/ You can either use these, make your own, or use an i386 chroot with the DISPLAY environment variable set. Now, at a terminal, run: $ AAFont=fixed bb ...or choose whatever font you want. Make the X11 window nice and big _before_ you choose your options. If you resize the window while the demo is playing the audio gets out of sync. > Actually the whole demo looks _much_ nicer in 32bit mode. The toroid there > really does looks 3D (instead of flatish 3D in 64bit mode) and the Mandelbrod > demo went from just beautifull to very impressive indeed. When using the same driver, the i386 build looks the same as amd64; the toroid ugliness is rectified with Lennart's fix, and the fractal zooming seems to be random. Use the X11 driver with a big window and a small font. BB will look quite nice. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
