I am sorry to be late in my response, but during the week-end I have no
E-mail. I used to have a Voodoo3 card that did not make me terribly happy.
With XFree4.0 I have been able to get the 3D acceleration using the dri
interface. But I lost the usage of the key F12 which is used to set up the
heading in Autopilot mode. Also, my frame rate was mediocre (about 15 fps).
Since you have a Banshee card, you will get the same problem.
With my GeForce 3, I get 80-130 fps. Almost an order of magnitude! Also,
note I gave wrong information. My gears run at 1300 fps and not 600 as I
said.
> ----------
> From: pieter bonne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] plib + mesa problem (?)..
>
> greetings,
>
> I'll explain what I found out..
>
> On Friday 24 August 2001 17:41, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > could you describe a bit more precisely your system. I am a bit
> sceptical
> A month ago, I wanted to get DRI to work, so I started with upgrading my
> xfree to the latest mandrake binary, mesa to the latest binary, my kernel
> to
> 2.4.7 but still DRI wouldn't work. then I went to #dri on
> irc.freeprojects.org and there was a dude from redhat who was
> making/testing
> bleeding edge packages about dri, so I installed xfree, mesa and kernels
> from
> redhat and everything went smoothly from there.. He did however stress
> that I
> shoud use the specific version of Mesa (that he had built de XFree for, I
> suppose).
>
As I said previously, you are looking for trouble by mixing different
distributions. I would really recommand that you buy (or download) a SuSe
distribution. RedHat is notorious for its compiler breaking FlightGear.
Also, it looks that NVidia is the recommanded brand in order to run
flawlessly FlightGear. I know that the GeForce3 card is not exactly the
cheapest, but I am pretty sure that you will be able to find a NVidia card
for about 50.-$ (?) which will outbeat your Banshee.
Personally, I always like solutions which are simple!
> > (ii) For the moment, do not try to build FlightGear but instead try to
> make
> > Mesa and plib working properly. There is a good test called ./gears
> which
> > clearly shows if you are using 3D acceleration or not. For example with
> a
> > GeForce3, my gears "turn" at about 600 frames/second. To make this
> working
> > properly, one needs to be extra careful.
> I can inform you that gears runs at 300fps on my 266hmz with a banshee..
> :)
> However, the situation already changed a bit, people at plib lists told me
>
> that the context initialisation error was actually a bug in the version of
>
> mesa I was running. Remember how the redhat-dude at #dri stressed that I
> would only get dri, using that specific version?
> So I'm going to try to rebuild an older (or a newer) version of my current
>
> mesa, in the hope that my DRI will remain operational.
>
> > Also as a remark, my SuSe7.2 distribution is more or less incompatible
> with
> > FlightGear. Officially, Mesa is supposed to disappear and to be replaced
> by
> > a new generation GUI. Nevertheless, I had to hack my installation, to
> > remove that "new" technology stuff and put back Mesa. I installed the
> > corresponding plib and I modified the file XF86Config to edit my
> X-Windows.
> Interresting.. and what is this new technololy named? sorry, I'm a bit
> curous
> here.. ;)
>
> > When plib works PROPERLY, installing SimGear and FlightGear is quite
> > straightforward.
> Indeed, compiling the plib test programs is first thing now..
>
> > Also, make sure that the base package is compatible.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > JJ Malosse
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: pieter bonne[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 4:55 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [Flightgear-users] plib + mesa problem (?)..
> > >
> > > greetings,
> > >
> > > I'll explain what I experienced. To get my direct rendering to work, I
> > > installed redhat packages on my mandrake system (the mandrake packages
> > > weren't able to enable direct rendering for some reason). However, I
> > > discovered that my headers and my libraries had a tiny difference in
> > > version.after I had reinstalled my libraries to match my headers,
> > > FlightGear
> > > worked, but I lost direct rendering because these libraries were
> really
> > > needed by glide of X or something.. Now I have upgraded my headers to
> > > match
> > > my libraries and I'm recompiling tonight.. I'll keep you informed..
> > >
> > > goodnight!
> > > xas
> > >
> > > --
> > > Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not until.
> > >
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> kind regards
> Pieter Bonne
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