Greetings guys;
I have an old, slow box (1Ghz Athlon, 384 megs ram) I'm using as a sacrificial
box to play with ubuntu 8.04 on, so its called 'goat'. :)
>From a shell on this F8 box, as root:
xhost +gene goat (gene being the only user configured on goat)
ssh -Y -l gene goat
enter genes passwd
emc
select the sim stuff and it asks to copy the files to the users dir for
editing, and I confirm.
selecting one of the sims for axis (there seem to be 3 trees, sim, sim-1, and
sim-2, whats the diff?)
it runs, and I can run the logo just fine, but the screen update rate is only
in the 1 second range. So I stop it, vim the axis.ini file to make the base
rate a little (10x) faster, and see no reason to adjust the timing for
anything else, but I do slow the accels and vels down to the neighborhhod of
what my machine can do in real life.
Restart it and select the edited file, and it runs, a bit slower doing the
logo cuz I slowed it down to 10% of the default, and more accurately
according to the display, but the screen update rate here is still only about
1/second, and the corners aren't 'cut across' but drawn pretty accurately, so
it isn't 'snapshoting'.
The connection is 100mbit ethernet, and isn't all that busy. Looking at the
gkrellm display here, I'd estimate I'm using 20% of the available bandwidth
for all this.
Question 1:
Are there any optimizations I can do to get a realtime response quick enough
to be at least believable here?
Or am I simply stuck with this lag until the ATI/Diamond HD2400 Pro video card
(an rv610 chipset) here in this box actually gets some accelerated support
from the xorg folks in the radeonhd driver? (In progress, 2 weeks overdue in
fact)
I don't suffer from lack of iron on this box, its a 2.2ghz, quad core AMD
Phenom with nearly 20k bogomips available, and 4G's of ram.
Question 2:
Also, I wanted to play with the homing functions, but it won't let me, saying
the "shared homing switch is already closed." That sounds like a hal config
thing, is it fixable so I can actually see how that is supposed to work in
real life?
Thanks guys.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die,
and we will conquer. Follow me.
-- General Barnard E. Bee (CSA)
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