Hellom
On Monday 27 August 2001 17:21, you wrote:
> 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.
> As I said previously, you are looking for trouble by mixing different
> distributions.
I wouldn't make a too big deal about this, these were quite monolithic
parts.. I have not noticed one inconsistency or a crash or anything..
mandrake isn't very different from mandrake.. certainly not on fundamental
libs..
> I would really recommand that you buy (or download) a SuSe
> distribution.
I've tried that, 7.1 actually, I installed kde2.2 and it crashed right away.
The installation was very smooth, but the system just didn't stroke with the
way I liked to work with my pc.. way too much indirect control, or at least
that's what I felt.. I don't really feel at ease on a non-redhat system.. All
I really need is a good, speedy (500k, every time! :) and big rpm resource,
which I have found at mandrake cooker!..
> RedHat is notorious for its compiler breaking FlightGear.
I never had compiler issues, it turned out to be a coding "bug" in mesa
libs..
> Also, it looks that NVidia is the recommanded brand in order to run
> flawlessly FlightGear.
Jep, I know.. but it's 1) expensive 2) not having open-sourced drivers.. I
know the second argument isn't really a good argument, but it's still a
show-stopper to me..
> 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.
Propably somewhere in the neat future.. first I've gotta get rid of this
pentium II 266.. ;)
>
> Personally, I always like solutions which are simple!
the best solutions are the simplest ones, but you cam't always turn that
around.. :)
greetings from belgium,
-xas-
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