On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:29 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Richard Harke writes: > > Terribly, terribly slow is an enormous understatement. The whole machine > > is virtually locked up. Takes many seconds to change desktop, > > misses mouse clicks a lot. FlightGear display seems to update > > about once every 4-6 seconds > > I've run Ksim > > > > 492M - 252M free > > 2000M - 1980M free > > > > sporadic disk activity > > > > cpu at 100% > > > > I think also it is some kind of debug mode as it keeps reporting > > details about what it is doing. > > Your description of runtime performance seems to indicate that you are > not using any sort of hardware acceleration. You should probably > check (ldd) that the flightgear app is indeed linked to the proper > nvidia accelerated opengl libs.
Thanks, you are quite right. I originally had home compiled xserver, then installed the package Matthew Wilcox pointed me to. This didn't appear to affect the nvidia driver so I neglected to re-install it. The nvidia driver was running, just refusing to do 3D acceleration. A re-install of the nvidia drivers solved the problem. I didn't go far however, when I tried to use the mouse to control, I couldn't get the throttle to budge. (as determined by engine RPM) It did work from the keyboard. I have USB keyboard and mouse. (wheel mouse, wheel does work in some apps) Richard > > Regards, > > Curt.
