I was trying to upgrade my PC to get decent FlightGear performance. FlightGear (www.flightgear.org) is an open-source flight simulator.
I bought 2 cards, one with a Radeon 7500QW, the other has a Radeon 9000If. Both have 128MByte memory, and are Powered by ATI, Built by Hightech Information Systems, www.hightech.com.hk. It's virtually impossible to get Built by ATI cards here. My PC is an Athlon 800 with VIA KT133 chipset. Here are my observations: XFree86 4.2.0 (RPMS from RedHat 8.0): 7500: - scenery is drawn nicely - aircraft instrument panel is not drawn correctly. According to the FlightGear mailing list this is a known problem with 4.2.0 and Radeons. - runs stably 9000: - not supported by that release. XFree86 4.2.99.3 (RPMS from RedHat 8.0.93): 7500: - scenery exhibits massive texturing errors (i.e. wrongly colored/textured triangles) - aircraft instrument panel is drawn correctly - display freezes after roughly a minute. I could most of the time log into the computer over the network, according to strace the X server called the RADEON_CP_IDLE ioctl in a loop and was getting EBUSY all the time. Killing the X server freezes the machine completely. 9000: - works nicely, no texturing problems, instrument panel drawn correctly XFree86 4.2.99.901 (RPMS from Mike Harris): 7500: - scenery still exhibits the texturing problems - the freezes are gone Would be nice if this problem could be solved, although I'm not depending on it, I can run flightgear without textures... Tom _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
