Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for 3d model_panel

2005-11-30 Thread Simon Hollier
Simon Hollier wrote: Hello, Attached is a patch for flightgear and simgear that removes the model_panel kludge and fixes a potential memory leak. Thoughts/comments? Simon I can not test the patch due to lack of time, but I have the impression that this is not backward compatible

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for 3d model_panel

2005-11-29 Thread Simon Hollier
Hello, Attached is a patch for flightgear and simgear that removes the model_panel kludge and fixes a potential memory leak. Thoughts/comments? Simon Index: src/Main/renderer.cxx === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Hollier
Andy Ross wrote: Simon Hollier wrote: Andy Ross wrote: [...] tought [...] ...and some of us were taught ; Oh, the irony! Mea culpa. But it would only have been ironic if I were criticizing spelling, not usage. You didn't punctuate your first sentence, by the way. Smileys don't count

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Hollier
Andy Ross wrote: Simon Hollier wrote: Andy Ross wrote: And your usage of the ellipsis is non-standard; it should represent missing text. It did represent missing text: Some of use were tought, Except that text wasn't missing. You quoted it, remember? And even if not, it was *my* text

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About 3D Clouds

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Hollier
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Running probs

2005-02-22 Thread Simon Hollier
of the problems. I don't know if anything more has been done on this (I don't see anything in the archive), but I can reproduce something very much like this on linux. snip Hmm, this sounds familiar... try --prop:/sim/rendering/use-display-list=false in your .fgfsrc Simon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG on Mac OSX

2004-11-09 Thread Simon Hollier
! Still haven't had a chance to try X.org CVS for my 9200 first edition; and yes, Martin, it's flightgear that is using 450+MB of the 512MB of memory causing the paging out to disk and can be isolated to the dlist call. Simon ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-13 Thread Simon Hollier
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 15:30, Mathias Frhlich wrote: On Mittwoch 13 Oktober 2004 04:25, Simon Hollier wrote: Well, I wish that were the case. Simgear/Flightgear/Plib fresh cvs as of 20 minutes ago (just to be sure). I'm running XFree86 4.4RC2,2.6.5-7 as per Suse 9.1 which might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-13 Thread Simon Hollier
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:51, Martin Spott wrote: Simon Hollier wrote: My guess is that display lists are stored in the graphics cards memory which is not that big with 32MB. That leads to graphics memory allocated via agp in main memory. These accesses seem to be much slower

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-12 Thread Simon Hollier
chosen Nvidia so I could enjoy DLists :, Simon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-12 Thread Simon Hollier
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 15:27, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Simon Hollier a écrit : I'm running 9200/Linux/DRI drivers... the crease patch was great (thanks!). The DList patch gives me a frame rate of around 0.2 fps when I look at any objects or change the view... it might as well segfault. I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-12 Thread Simon Hollier
Martin Spott writes: Simon Hollier wrote: I'm running 9200/Linux/DRI drivers... the crease patch was great (thanks!). The DList patch gives me a frame rate of around 0.2 fps when I look at any objects or change the view... it might as well segfault. [...] [...] Wishing I had chosen Nvidia

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenAL

2004-04-24 Thread Simon Hollier
That search appeared to be more productive initially, but nothing helpful has cropped up, yet. Maybe this will help ? http://omapi.sourceforge.net/extra/ -Simon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CH Pro Yoke and Linux 2.6.3

2004-03-23 Thread Simon Hollier
, with the Linux 2.6.* HID support. David, I just found this which might help : http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2226 I'll try it out when I get home from work. - Simon. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flashing white patches

2004-01-19 Thread Simon Hollier
Erik Hofman writes: Simon Hollier wrote: Both of these patches should fix the fog flashing to white(black?) bug. The first one just checks for the Not a Number condition that results from acos(1+small_delta). The second patch uses atan2, but doesn't quite make it near 0 or PI at the edge

[Flightgear-devel] Flashing white patches

2004-01-17 Thread Simon Hollier
the difference between the two, but I'm sure there is one. I suppose a third solution would be to wrap the math.h library and bounds check for all acos asin calls ? Thoughts, suggestions? cd $flightgear_root/source/src/Time patch sunpos_nan.patch - Simon. Simon Hollier Computer Services

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Sky flashing roundup

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Hollier
Erik Hofman writes: Simon Hollier wrote: It's strange everyone is seeing a flash to black. I'm seeing a flash to white. I was able to reproduce it consistently by flying straight out of KSFO at noon with no heading change. It would flash once at ~1230 feet, again at ~1330 feet, and maybe once

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest ATI related problem...

2003-12-30 Thread Simon Hollier
;) The only thing that I noticed that changed(besides no more lockups) when I installed the cvs XFree was xpdf + ghostview. They have files in the X tree that I blew away. I just apt-get removed then apt-get installed them and it all works great. - Simon. -- Simon Hollier Computer Services Northeast

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest ATI related problem...

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Hollier
. After dealing with hard locks, rendering artifacts are a blessing ;) Good luck! -Simon. -- Simon Hollier Computer Services Northeast Health District ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
cost), unlike XFS which only journals metadata. Since it halves your write performance people generally don't use it, but it's there in ext3 . . . In any case, filesystems that /aren't/ paranoid about your data aren't things to be trusted . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:35:57PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Simon Fowler writes: Actually, ext3 is a better choice than XFS if you really care about your data - it does full data journalling (at a performance cost), unlike XFS which only journals metadata. Since it halves your write

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendation

2003-12-05 Thread Simon Hollier
the best, Matt I've also seen the sky flash with a Radeon 9200 - 128MB on Linux with CVS XFree86 and 2.6 test9 kernel. I've always just thought it was flaky DRI/DRM, but they(XFree86) seem to have worked most of the bugs out with the latest CVS (ie. no more hard locks! : ) -Simon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.7 available

2003-12-02 Thread Simon Hollier
(); ++Itr) { + Twy_list_iterator Itr; + for(Itr = _cTwys.begin(); Itr != _cTwys.end(); ++Itr) { Point3D p((*Itr).lon, (*Itr).lat, 0.0); Point3D p2 = raw-ortho.ConvertToLocal(p); av_x += p2.x(); Looks good and thanks, Simon. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a FIXME in fg_props.cxx

2003-11-12 Thread Simon Fowler
overflow . . . It probably isn't necessary in this case, but it's a Good Habit To Get Into(tm). Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread simon
, the possibilities are endless : btw, this is the list of mirrors that has the new scenery. Cheers, Simon. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in the joystick properties code.

2003-06-04 Thread Simon Fowler
, I think - I haven't been able to test this for a while, so I may be misremembering). A very simple test for this is to add a null binding to a button on a joystick and then hit the button . . . Hopefully this can be fixed before the release, if it's still a problem. Simon -- PGP public key Id

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation fault ?

2002-12-10 Thread Simon Fowler
being. patch will be more likely to work if you feed it a unified diff. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors/css/ msg10310/pgp0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Blender Status

2002-11-13 Thread Simon Fowler
if we divided the aircraft up by the class of license that would be needed to fly them? Given we're trying for a high degree of realism, that could easily be the most useful approach, and certainly it'd be one that people might want as an option . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
problem). It'd be very nice if all the aircraft had a 2d panel that could be switched to without having to fiddle with properties, even if the panel was just the c172/310 default . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
or with FlightGear - I'm investigating it at the moment . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors/css/ msg08976/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:25PM -0400, John Check wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 11:02 pm, John Check wrote: Latest cvs build falls down with: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:55:46PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:25PM -0400, John Check wrote: Okay now it dies with: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Database Model

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Fowler
that the airports in the scenery matched perfectly the airports that FlightGear sees when running (unless you've explicitly hacked things up) - there've been several reports of runways and their navaids being completely out of sync with the scenery, and this seems like a good way to fix them . . . Simon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FG 0.80

2002-09-28 Thread Simon Fowler
. . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors/css/ msg08467/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile error in src/Systems/electrical.cxx with g++-3.2

2002-09-25 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:37:55AM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I think MSVC reports the same errors. I really shouldn't be using cout here, it's just easier/quicker when hacking on the code. I'll fix that up. It builds now - thanks for the prompt fix ;-) Simon -- PGP public key Id

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile error with plib

2002-07-10 Thread Simon Fowler
. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel Hello, Working here now also, thanks. And it's been committed, so all is well. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDMs and external atmosphere

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Fowler
of the weather model, etc) There seemed to be support for them in the CM weather stuff, and it seems a little redundant to be adding a new, less capable model when there's one already there . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-12 Thread Simon Fowler
, it still gives you a very good idea of what a command does, and with tab completion you can browse through all the cvs-* or tags-* or whatever and get an overview of your options. emacs is a really remarkable piece of software, really . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77

[Flightgear-devel] Spinning propellers and framerates.

2002-05-05 Thread Simon Fowler
, and the latest DRI CVS tree, along with the latest CVS trees from FlightGear, SimGear and plib. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread Simon Fowler
things /far/ more flexible, and it'd fit nicely with the current .fgfsrc system . . . I don't know how the preferences loading code works, but it shouldn't be hard to extend it to handle this . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Fowler
forces. Am I missing something here? Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/ msg05423/pgp0.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:23:32PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: Simon Fowler wrote: Andy Ross wrote: I'm actually fuzzy on the real reason that high-wing aircraft have a built-in dihedral-like effect. Take a look at http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/roll.html . . . Right. That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-06 Thread Simon Fowler
tool . . . I have no idea about windows. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/ msg05082/pgp0.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC compile problem

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Fowler
subscript is multiplied by the size of the array to the right of it and then added to the index into the area of memory . . . Which isn't very coherent. The perils of posting well past one's bedtime ;-) Still, I think it's definitely safe to use memcpy this way . . . So, memcpy away ;-) Simon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: compiling under Linux RedHat 7.2 and Accelerated 3D Summit openGL

2002-04-01 Thread Simon Fowler
? They work nicely for me . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/ msg04773/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: compiling under Linux RedHat 7.2 and Accelerated 3D Summit openGL

2002-04-01 Thread Simon Fowler
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:43:00PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: Simon Fowler wrote: Andy Ross wrote: All that being said, I'd be curious as you how your experience is with the XiG drivers. These provide the only useful Radeon support for Linux, right now, and are rather reasonably priced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-30 Thread Simon Fowler
? With the DRI drivers on my Athlon 550 I could get 20+ fps at 800x600, 16bpp. This was with low poly-count scenery, though. Visual quality was /excellent/ - better than my current Radeon, and the DRI drivers were excellent, too. Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-28 Thread Simon Fowler
a new video card ... Considering how cheaply you can get modern, well supported cards, this might be the best option . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My