Curtis Olson wrote: > On 1/22/07, *Donn Washburn* wrote: > > Thanks Curtis; > > I will admit that I have a FX5200 NVidia card and this Asus MB is full > of Nvidia. All works very well. However, I am using the Xorg nv module > at this time. I will likely upgrade the kernel this week end and then > install the NVidia file.run. We will see if that fixes it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> glxgears > 1267 frames in 5.0 seconds = 253.317 FPS > 1484 frames in 5.0 seconds = 296.630 FPS > > So I guess -Yes! and the gears look correc.t > > > I'm seeing 4000 - 7000 fps here with the nvidia drivers installed, so I > will suggest that you have software only opengl activated right now. If > you are running with the "nv" xorg driver, then you will not be able to > run FlightGear more than 1 frame every few seconds if at all. > > For whatever it's worth, I attempted to get an ATI PCI express video > card working in FC6 with FlightGear over the past couple weeks and I > finally just popped out the ATI card and put in an nVidia card, > installed the nvidia drivers and everything just works. Probably could > have given the ATI card a bit more effort, but from the stuff I could > google, it looked like ATI hadn't caught up to FC6 just yet ... > > Curt. > -- Curtis;
After compiling a kernel and running Nvidia's .run - glxgears reports [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> glxgears 2016 frames in 5.0 seconds = 403.181 FPS 2166 frames in 5.0 seconds = 433.073 FPS 2135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 426.899 FPS 2554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 510.779 FPS much improved -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " [EMAIL PROTECTED] " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " [EMAIL PROTECTED] " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users