On 16/09/2013, Kassen <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoops :-). I think that was me proposing a change in the behaviour, > not me documenting how it works. I suspect that both 1 and 2 (and > probably any other non-zero value) should lead to showing the fps.
Ok, cool. Interesting then that show-fps 1 causes fluxus to be aborted, but 2 (and perhaps others; untested) causes x to crash and loop... >> I could never get my graphics card set up to work with ubuntu and >> compiz 3d effects. It has been running on "normal". I tried with all >> visual effects disabled. No change. >> (By the way, I am not running the best machine - IBM ThinkPad X60) >> > > This may well be the cause of the issue. What kind of card is in your > machine? Just dirty standard built in card. This feels to me also the most likely cause of the problem somehow. lspci returns the following: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) > The repository, with instructions, is here > https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=fluxus > > That site is linked to from the pawfal.org/fluxus page under the "get > involved" section. Clearly there are outdated instructions elsewhere. > If you could indicate what instructions you were trying to follow Dave > could update those, if he has a moment. Thank you, I have built from that source now. No change - show-fps still causes the Abort. Not sure what instructions I was following. Bits from the website and elsewhere as I was tweaking the RacketCollects= and also using ODE_DOUBLE=1. I originally built fluxus many months ago, and that was when I built a lot of it's requirements from source (PLT 4.2.2 and Racket 5.1.1) - thus I haven't changed any of that stuff... > Well, I think GDM will automatically try to restart itself, that > caused your loop, I bet. I'd try "sudo killall X". Do note that this > (Assuming your X-server is called "X") will cause you to lose all > programs running under X and all unsaved data in those. Depending on > your configuration X may now be automatically restarted in tty7 or you > may need to restart it manually by typing "startx" in the tty of your > choice. Thank you for the info. >> Happily, we can get something going, but as you say with a little more >> diagnosis. >> Is there any way to get fluxus to spit out more error data than "Aborted" >> ??? > > Good question. I'm not sure right now. Our support for error messages > is quite modest at the moment. No worries. We'll see what happens just. >> Many thanks again, > > No problem. Please report back on whether using the version from our > Git repo helps your issue. If not we may need to look into your > graphics card. If that doesn't help there may be some more serious > matter and I will probably be out of my league. Fortunately we also > have people with more expertise on OpenGL acting up who may have a > moment to spare to help stamp out the issue. As mentioned above, the git repo build didn't help the issue... I quickly skimmed the src and found show-fps calls SetFPSDisplay, but couldn't find where the function originates. Just me poking around not really knowing what I am looking for. Any ideas where to go from here? All the best, Michael
