Ta for the info. I got the 'feeling thet something changed' - I should have a look at the cvs logs but I'm not sure what to look for, or in which package. Live an' learn eh? ;)
LeeE On Saturday 27 December 2003 17:03, Paul Surgeon wrote: > I had a similar problem about 1 month ago when I checked out a clean copy of > FG and SimGear and compiled it. > My system would keep locking up within 30 seconds whereas the 0.9.3 release > runs just fine. > > My problem was that the nVidia drivers for the TNT2 are not so hot under Linux > and I sorted the problem out by popping in a Ti4200 (same video driver and > same system). A certain sequence of OpenGL calls would cause the drivers to > "go south" with the TNT2. > > It was a video diver issue but it was definitely triggered by a change in > SimGear/FlightGear/plib. > > Paul > > > On Saturday, 27 December 2003 17:38, Lee Elliott wrote: > > I've been having a few problems, and not just with FG, since fitting a new > > ATI 9200 vid card but just recently I've found that I can't run FG at > > night-time at all. > > > > This wasn't originally the case when I first fitted the card - it's > > happened since, either as a result of system upgrades (Debian Unstable) > > or due to changes in FG or it's supporting packages i.e. plib or SimGear. > > > > I've tried both versions of the ATI drivers that I have - 3.2.5 & 3.2.8 - > > but the problem occurrs with both of them, but as I said, when I > > originally fitted the card this problem didn't happen - Heh! I have the > > screen grabs to prove it. > > > > Is anyone aware of any recent changes to FG, over the last month or so, > > that might be causing this? > > > > What happens now is that if I start FG with the sim time in darkness, FG > > runs for about 2-3 seconds before the display hangs. The mouse still > > works and I can ssh into the box from another system, where I can see X > > thrashing, but I'm not able to either restart X or even shutdown cleanly. > > Any attempt to do so results in a complete system lock-up. > > > > The mis-behaviour after the problem has occurred i.e. the inability to > > close X or cleanly shutdown, is definitely down to ATI's drivers but I'm > > wondering what's causing them to flip-out in the first place. The > > drivers were originally ok with FG and the problems with other packages > > don't appear to have changed, which rather points at changes in FG. > > > > LeeE > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
