[OT] FlightGear

[Cian Duffy]

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.
<joseph_sacco at comcast.net> 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.
> > <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> 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
> > >
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