I am running fg on an MacBook Pro (10.5.7) equipped with an GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. I have not experienced any problems with macflightgears 1.9.1 nor with the May 19 CVS package (my 1 hour flight ended just a few minutes ago). I usually run a non-macflighgear based fg that I build frequently without any problems related to the graphics card.
Jari James Turner wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
