On 10 Mar 2005, at 05:02, Josh Babcock wrote:
I've successfully compiled Flightgear from CVS (thanks for the help), but for some reason it won't run. FlightGear loads and all i see is a Black screen with a white box in the middle (where the splash screen should be). The CPU usage goes to 100% and stays there until i kill fgfs.
Sounds like it is using software rendering. Do you have a 3D card and the appropriate driver installed? It would help to know what OS, driver and 3D card you are using.
It is pretty much impossible for any recent Mac to use software rendering - even a G3 iBook has some kind of Radeon in it as standard. What this could be is something that caught me ought the first few times - FG is now taking an looong to startup on OS-X, something on the order of 90 seconds on my PowerBook G4 1GHz.
The first few times I assumed it had hung, but then I waited and it actually got as far as showing the splash screen.
I have spent some time doing some profiling and spot timing of startup, and unfortunately there are no really obviously bad things happening; there's just an awful lot of work to be done, much of it greedily, and it takes a while. If you run with the logging level put back up (as it used to be), you can see all the work that's going on.
Of course, your problem could be something completely unrelated - you could run under gdb and ctrl-c once it seems to have stopped, to find out where.
H&H
James
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