Re: FlightGear on ia64

[Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net>]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:29 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> Richard Harke writes:
> > Terribly, terribly slow is an enormous understatement. The whole machine
> > is virtually locked up. Takes many seconds to change desktop,
> > misses mouse clicks a lot. FlightGear display seems to update
> > about once every 4-6 seconds
> > I've run Ksim
> >
> > 492M - 252M free
> > 2000M - 1980M free
> >
> > sporadic disk activity
> >
> > cpu at 100%
> >
> > I think also it is some kind of debug mode as it keeps reporting
> > details about what it is doing.
>
> Your description of runtime performance seems to indicate that you are
> not using any sort of hardware acceleration.  You should probably
> check (ldd) that the flightgear app is indeed linked to the proper
> nvidia accelerated opengl libs.

Thanks, you are quite right. I originally had home compiled
xserver, then installed the package Matthew Wilcox pointed
me to. This didn't appear to affect the nvidia driver so I neglected
to re-install it. The nvidia driver was running, just refusing
to do 3D acceleration. A re-install of the nvidia drivers solved
the problem.

I didn't go far however, when I tried to use the mouse to control,
I couldn't get the throttle to budge. (as determined by
engine RPM) It did work from the keyboard.
I have USB keyboard and mouse. (wheel mouse, wheel does
work in some apps)

Richard

>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.