> I'm secure enough now that I'm shopping to build a new machine. I'm looking > at AMD64 motherboards and one of the newer nvidia cards. And what I'm > wondering is whether any fgfs developers can speak to building and running > fgfs, on linux, on an AMD64 box, and/or with the nv 6600's/6800's etc. > I've seen some threads that people are running it on AMD64 OK; but I'm > wondering if there are any suggestions, recommendations, or warnings that > are worth hearing before I start shelling out the big $ (e.g. mobos you're > happy with or had nothing but trouble with). I wanna get back to this stuff.
FGFS runs fine under AMD64 in both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures and has done so for 18 months. Debian i386 Testing and AMD64 Unstable, as they were called at the time (AMD64 Testing didn't exist initially). USB joysticks are unaffected by transitioning between 32 bit and 64 bit. You seem to be going for desktop chassis; in which case the motherboard chipset is a minor issue (compared to the nightmare that laptops can be) and not one I can help with. All my non-server AMD64 systems are laptops. Your only real remaining issue is whether your video chipset will run accelerated with the 32 bit and/or the 64 bit kernel. If you use a card that's old enough to have open source drivers, this is trivial. Both NV and ATI provide 32 and 64 bit versions of their binary drivers, supporting both X.org and xfree86, so there is no availability problem. People have had various levels of luck with installation gremlins though. Therefore, I suggest checking the mailing list for your specific chipset. Once that is taken care of, I'd just install and start flying around. Hope that helps. PS. If you're going to be dual boot for both 32 and 64 bit architectures, don't forget to have the disk space containing FGFS's data (and scenery) be shared. You don't want to install (eg) Alaska on one filesystem, then later reboot, then realize you have to do that installation again. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
