--- Mike Rawlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems to be something related to graphics. First,
> the sound sputter doesn't seem to occur when C172 is
> stationary on the runway. I then moused over to the
> red hat on toolbar (KDE desktop). As the menu
> options
> opened up, I hear the sputter. Then as the mouse
> moves over menu options with arrow, and other menu
> options open to the right, some more crackle. Looks
> like as images, although small, appear on my LCD
> monitor, some discontinuity occurs, manifested by
> change in sound of the engine (memory access?).
> Recall
> I'm running NVIDIA 32MB GeForce2 video card.
>
> I should add that the pitching up/down was vitually
> non-existant when I made a short flight in the
> pattern
> around SFO. Maybe minimizing the number of active
> windows and using only 1 desktop (have 4) helps.
>
> Funny, when I first started using FG 6 months ago on
> this system, I thought my setup was top notch.
>
> Mike
I now have found a most obvious example of the
discontinuity. If, before taking off, I grab the
title bar of FG window and move window, I hear that
nasty sound. Granted, no one does this while flying
the sim, but it's the same sound I heard at regular
20-sec intervals while flying, when I had a few other
windows active on one or more of my KDE desktops. The
problem now seems minor if I have just one shell
window open.
Can anyone speak to the relative quality of my NVIDIA
28MB GeForce2 card? I guess I'd like to know if most
linux users run FG with a more expensive video card,
like one that's not a shared memory card.
Mike
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