Alex Perry wrote: > I just noticed that the Debian autobuilder had quietly gone off and made > AMD64 packages to run FlightGear 0.9.4 and all its dependencies in 64-bit. > I did "sudo apt-get install flightgear" and "fgfs" ... and it ran fine. > > The framerate was just over 1fps, but that's because the laptop has the > ATI 9600 chipset so I have to choose between the unaccelerated open source > driver or the 32-bit only accelerated closed source driver from ATI. > I used the accelerated driver, running in a chroot on a biarch kernel, > but ATI's kernel module doesn't compile for 64-bit so I couldn't use it.
Heh, you beat me. Just this week I got a new AMD64 laptop (Compaq R3000Z), but haven't gotten around to getting a 64 bit distribution installed yet. It has a 64MB Geforce card (an NV17 -- a little old, but fast enough) that runs 32 bit FlightGear quite nicely. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
