On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:00:44 -0700, Andy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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 ..which laptop and which X? How does 32- and 64-bit glxgears compare, native screen (no resizing), full screen and "same as FG"? > > 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. ..does ATI know? > 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. ..http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and tadaaa: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/sid-amd64-cdrom.iso > It has a 64MB Geforce card (an NV17 -- a little old, but fast enough) > that runs 32 bit FlightGear quite nicely. ..anyone else on 64-bit iron out there? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
