On Mit, 2002-11-20 at 16:56, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On 20 Nov 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > On Mit, 2002-11-20 at 00:38, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > > heretic2 has some problems, but they also show up in the trunk :-) > > > Basically, any sort of flashing (like if my character throws a fireball), > > > causes a huge drop in the framerate. > > > > It uses the Quake 2 engine, right? As has been discussed here before, it > > has an inefficient implementation of dynamic lighting with > > multitexturing. Try > > > > set gl_ext_multitexture "0" > > > > or > > > > set gl_dynamic "0" > > set gl_ext_multitexture "0" didn't work. I forgot to try gl_dynamic > before I left for work. I'll hopefully be able to give it a whirl > tonight.
You've let me know in private that it does the trick. set gl_ext_multitexture "0" might have required a restart, of the renderer at least. > > > I've also given it a shot under FreeBSD. The results with GL applications > > > (both native and linux through the binary compatability layer) are the > > > same. *However* the X server itself seems rather unstable. At first, I > > > couldn't figure it out; everytime I went to start X, the server would > > > start up for a split second and then die. After some experimenting, I > > > discovered that the problem was gkrellm, which was in my .xinitrc. More > > > specifically, it seems to be any gtk-2.0 application. In addition, when I > > > switched to kde3 as my window manager, the same thing happened. So, I can > > > run enlightenment without any problem. However, if I start any gtk-2.0 > > > apps, or kde3 apps (maybe it's qt?), the X server will die :-) > > > > There have been reports of crashes in the TrueType font renderers, could > > it be that? > > Hmmm... I guess that's a possibility. I tried another experiment this > morning and the results kind of surprised me. > > If I start X with "xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" and then launch metacity > from the xterm, the server will crash. If, however, I start X with > "xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/metacity", the server starts up and runs fine. Weird. > I'm including the last 60 lines of /var/log/XFree86.0.log. You'll notice > that there's an unresolved symbol in libGLcore.a Yes, and you'll also notice the disclaimer before the crash. :) AFAICS there are no OpenGL apps involved so I doubt the unresolved symbol is relevant. A backtrace (with more information than all '??' :) would be interesting. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
