As someone who usually uses an *operating system* without hardware 3D support (BeOS5) I know the pain involved in compiling something only to find it uses an SDL/OpenGL GUI and only compiled because it found your software-accelerating MESA headers...
I must be the only person in the world who uses Linux/PPC because it has better software support - BeOS has no equivalent of Scribus, OO.o2, etc. It *does* have Firefox 1.0 though.. pretty much the only reason most people can still use it. Cian On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:55:42 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah... Those who are blessed... [:-)]. > > I just wanted to make people aware of this *requirement* before they > expend a lot of cycles trying to build the beast. > > -Joseph > > ============================================================================ > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:52, Cian Duffy wrote: > > Yes, but I've got a Radeon Mobile 9200 which is fully 3D accelerated > > under YDL. *smug*. 800+ FPS in glxgears, compared to 250 on my main > > computer, a homebuild x86 which also has a fully accelerated, > > apparently faster card (64MB DDR Radeon something-or-other) > > > > However, I *don't* have a number pad. Which seems to be pretty much > > required for in-game control. The OSX version also doesn't like me. So > > I'm going to try on my HP laptop, which has got a number pad that > > doesn't overlap other keys needed by the game - numlock makes it send > > the normal number keys like the numpad keys. > > > > Cian > > > > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:45:18 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FYI: > > > > > > I. GENERAL LINUX INSTRUCTIONS > > > ============================== > > > ... > > > > > > Without accelerated 3d rendering, FlightGear could never run at > > > decent frame rates, even on the fastest CPU's. > > > > > > -Joseph > > > > > > -- > > > joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > -- > joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > -- --------------------------- "We're busy running out of time" Bernard Sumner, 1993 _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
