On Friday 07 September 2007 13:45, Holger Wirtz wrote: > Hi experts, > > I am just before putting my IBM Thinkpad R60 into the trash... since > about 3 month I cannot start fgfs anymore due to problems of the > combination of Linux (Debian lenny), fglrx and fgfs (dev). > > I wrote some of the problems some time ago and I don't know exactly if > it is a problem of Flightgear. But I hope someone has a solution or > knows what to do to find the bug. > > SOme times ago I got after starting fgfs at the time the 3D screen > should be shown a free()-pointer error of glibc and fgfs stops. Now - > after upgrading the kernel and installing the actual fglrx and ATI > drivers - I only get a SIGSEGV :-( > > I tried to find information due to a gdb backtrace but I found nothing. > I know that fglrx maybe not something what is called a good driver... > > Can someone on this list give some hints what to do? > > Thanks, Holger
Since moving to Debian etch (stable) on all of my systems, for the first time I seem to have a stable and working driver for my old 9200 based video card in the form of the current Debian (stable) Xorg drivers. I haven't tried FG with it yet as I haven't got around to building FG since I installed etch but my 3D package now runs in OGL on it:) I thought I'd try the DAAMIT proprietary driver, to see if they gave any improvement but couldn't get them to install - lol. Heh - and then I had to manually reset a couple of re-directions installed by the DAAMIT driver to get the Xorg ones to install correctly after I used the DAAMIT uninstall procedure to remove it. However, I've been reading some reports recently that suggest that DAAMIT's OGL support is set to improve soon, but I'll wait and see. In the mean time, you could try the Xorg drivers. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
