From: Tom Flynn (flynnt++at++engr.sgi.com)
Date: 03/08/2002 14:11:51
Found the problem. It'll be fixed in Performer 2.5.1.
-tom
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Douglas W. Cunningham wrote:
> Hello.
> I have a bit of a wierd problem that has me stumped. We use
> performer (and have for quite while) on a number of machines (both IRIX
> and Linux). Recently, I was setting up a new machine ...and got some
> very wierd performance.
> More specifically, the time values returned by performer are
> negative (e.g., Time to load a texture = -0.11 secs). This is true for
> perfly as well as for programs we wrote. The negative time values seem
> to be responsible for other oddities:
> ->No framerate (or any other graphics) statistics;
>
> ->tether mode in perfly works, but the cars driver on the wrong side of
> the road;
>
> ->it is not possible to use the mouse to manipulate the image (either to
> drive in perfly or to change the viewing position, etc) althought it IS
> possible to use the mouse to interact with the gui;
>
> All other openGL programs work fine. Even commercial games work
> fine. All other programs that I have tested give positive time values.
> Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what might be going on
> here?
>
>
> FYI the system:
> Redhat 7.2
> kernel 2.4.7
> Fasttrak 100 tx2 raid controller
> Pentium-4 2.2 GHz CPU
> Performer 2.5.0-5
> Xfree 4.1.0
> NVidia GeForce 3 (with the 2313 drivers)
>
> This machine is identicle to other (funcitoning) machines, with the
> exception of the raid controller, the XFree version, and the kernel
> version. (Sadly, I cannot upgrade the kernel version beacuse the RAID
> controller needs a specific kernel module, which requires redhat's
> kernel 2.4.7).
>
>
> -dc
>
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