From: Ken Schwarz (kschwarz++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/26/2002 14:05:32
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 fin
>
>
>
>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.
>
Always a pleasure to deal with this one ;) Do one of two things Lawrence:
1) Avoid motif
2) Go and get the source for Mesa and build the GLw library yourself
and place in an appropriate directory -- run ldconfig if you need to.
>
>
>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!
>
One processor or two? Try the non-SMP kernel if you have two processor
system just to gather another data point.
>
>
>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)
>
Not sure buddy.
>
>
>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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