Latest progress report... Got the new quad 4 machine up and running....
3 instances of fg running, one master two slaves using 127.0.0.1:550x as the network interface. Flying (simming) is fun again ;-) Took a bit of brain storming organizing/editing the xml files to bind each fg instance to a display and screen and set the offset values. Thanks to Jacob Burbach for pointing out the --config= option for loading additional xml files. And still need to come up with a startup script to run taskset and bind each fg with strong affinity to a CPU and prevent Linux from playing match maker. Frame rates are not bad, master at 63fps and slaves at 60 and 73, no idea ATM why one slave is that much faster; suspect it might be the amount of visual stuff, left shows four birds on the taxiway waiting for takeoff (I'm sitting on 28L and blocking everyone) And that is with the older nVidia boards on a PCI bus. The GTX460s are still in the boxes. At any rate, still have to handle the edge blending problem, two possible approaches --- get pixels and apply a blending function or blend a polygon with a grey scale strip ( see example by Paul Bourke ), but, unfortunately, that may have to wait until after the Davis presentation. Still some mechanical work and painting on the shell, installing the third projector, and some serious work on the presentation material itself. All in all, it's coming together nicely. Jack > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM, <cas...@mminternet.com> wrote: > >> > Cool, looks like you are making great progress with a wrap around projected >> > display system! >> Thanks, still a way to go. enough to make a decent video ATM for the UCD >> presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
