CVS seems to have developed a bad bug (since 1.9.1 based on some testing) where on my nVidia-based Mac, the display server hangs completely - I can ssh in and reboot the machine from the command line, but there's no way to get the GUI back. The crashes occur after a few minutes (sometimes after just one minute, sometimes ten or fifteen), and 1.9.1 seems to be okay - as does my ATI-based Mac, running Tat's CVS macflightgear build.
*Sometimes*, instead of crashing, I instead get massive rendering corruption - all geometry becomes mapped to a single point in the centre of the window, at least on one vertex - this is accompanied by long lock-ups (several seconds). Generally after some time in this corrupted state the display server will hang as before, though if I'm quick I can quit flightgear and not have to reboot. Needless to say, all this makes testing very awkward. It's possible this is related to my specific machine, i.e the 7300GT in my Mac Pro is dying. However, 1.9.1 runs okay, and I've run other OpenGL apps at deliberately high settings, and haven't triggered any corruption or problems. Oh, and the crash occurs both with a build compiled myself, and with Tat's 'official' CVS binary build, so I don't believe it's a compiler / build problem - although my build files are derived from macflightgear ones, so I guess it could be a setting I've inherited from them. Anyone have any suggestions on figuring this out? Specific CVS commits that significantly changed OSG behaviour since 1.9.1? If anyone out there with a nVidia based Mac could run the Macflightgear CVS build, and report if they experience crashes or not (with OS-X 10.5.7), that would be very useful information. Regards, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
