Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question for Solaris-men

[Sergio]

Martin Spott a écrit : Sergio wrote: Sorry for ask here this strange question, expressely for Solaris-men, e.g. Sir Martin Spott and others... Oh, thanks for ennobling my name :-)) Sorry, I can't help you here as I never owned a joystick. I only have an Ultra2 which doesn't have USB ports so I couldn't test it for you even if I had a joystick. The U280 machines I maintain at my customers site do have USB but I don't believe they want me to run FlightGear on their file- or database servers ;-) Why ? It can interest its for replacing data processing with piloting airplanes... What platform do you use for FlightGear ? Could you provide hardware details and FlightGear performance numbers (fps) to us ? Here is precisely the problem, and my only chess (with also Rosegarden sequencer) on Solaris. After our last conversation (FlightGear extremely too slow), have tried several ways (my actual machine is unfortunately a x86 with a Radeon 9200=r280) : 1) Utah-GLX : runs but without glx because unsupports my 9200, installs AGPgart at the general reboot and crashes fully and definetively (frame) the entire machine :-D . 2) Wiki : builded a good r200 driver, glx works, AGP 8x works, but of course the kernel (Solaris 10) does not accept the Wiki Xorg because it have no DRI entry. Rests my R200 driver, witch increases a bit the performance, but not so as the Xsun system, witch had already a built-in glx. 3) Asked Opensolaris group, it it's possible to build my own kernel with DRI entry : answer was that any team is already on this task, and about this i at least understanded how FlightGear can actually work (e.g. on any Opensolaris screenshot !) without DRI : - either the machine is a sparc-station : in this case, openwin have an own accelerated OpenGL ; - or (x86) the card is a Nvidia, and Sun provides recently the adapted accelerated driver ; - or (x86) the card is an Ati, with a commercial (provided from a independant enterprise) accelerated driver ($ 30-120 or similar, 4 versions for each card) But if i will have money, then i will buy a sparc-machine and not a driver or a videocard !  :-)        About that all, my idea was to verify if, increasing the power with the joystick (with mouse it's too odd), it's however possible to "flight" under acceptables conditions. At conclusion, waiting for the new DRI kernel or the Sparc-station, i can only shutdown, boot Fedora, use FlightGear, after that shutdown Fedora and boot Solaris for others tasks... About Fedora, i can precise that : - unsetting DRI, the simulator runs very slow, like for me under Solaris ; - unsetting GLX, it even doesn't start ; - setting AGP 8x, Xorg hangs at the login ; - setting DRI, GLX, AGP 4x or without setting AGPMode, works fine. (CPU Intel 2,8 Ghz, 512 Mo RAM, 128 Mo videocard, disks 7200 rpm) Cheers, Sergio

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