From: Tom Flynn (flynnt++at++engr.sgi.com)
Date: 04/26/2002 13:14:00
on systems greater than 2Ghz, the clock period of the timestamp counter
overflows one of the variables used in pfGetTime(). This is fixed in
Performer 2.5.1 which will be released early next month.
-tom
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, lawrence bertoldi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just got a new system P-IIII 2.2ghz and added a GF-4.
> loaded RH 7.2 for i686,
> added the nvidia 2880 drivers,
> then installed Performer 2.5.
>
> Now the Performer 2.5 rpm's on the website is for i386 (at least that is
> what
> the rpm names imply) so I had to installed with "--nodeps". This all
> Seemed to work fine!
>
> After extracting the -lGLw, (I'm still trying to figure out why this is
> included in the link line if the the library is not included with RH or
> Performer. but that's another story) I compiled some of the demos in
> ...../pguide/libpf/C++ and they seemed to run fine.
>
> So I ran perfly on esprit.flt just to check things out and noticed that
> I had no mouse control in the viewer portion of the display. Everything
> else worked, the buttons, the keys. I tried again with town.perfly and
> sure enough no mouse control in the viewer!
>
> I also noticed that the cars were driving on the wrong side of the road
> which I don't mind (I thought maybe who ever rewrote perfly for linux
> was from across the pond) but I spoke to two people neither of whom
> noticed this when they ran perfly (of course they my not have noticed it
> but I doubt that)
>
> So my questions are::
>
> 1: dose anyone have a clue about the mouse (or lack thereof) action?
> 2: Are the cars supposed to be on the left side of the road?
> 3: if (!2) are 1 & 2 related
> 4: What about the i686 vs performer i386? is this an issue
> 5: And about that libGLw?
> 4.a: Why is it not included with anything except mesa yet (more
> importantly) it is in the
> makedefs file for the performer demos And (most Important) it is
> not needed to make
> these demos?
>
> See Ya ~;-}>
> Lawrence Bertoldi Software Engineer
> lberto++at++md.prestige.net Simagery Inc.
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