From: Guillaume Millet (millet++at++oktal.fr)
Date: 09/06/2002 03:23:16
Hello,
Before, you can try the lastest release: Performer 2.5.2
For perfly, I had the problem with multiprocessor machine.
I just recompile perfly from the source and it's work fine.
I have never tried the earthsky demo so I can tell you if it rotate CW
or CCW :-)
Bye
Massei Leonardo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with Performer 2.5.0-5 on Dell workstation ("530 precision"
> with nVIDIA Quadro-4 900 XGL, 2 Intel Xeon CPU at 2.2 Ghz and 2 Mb of Ram).
> I've done a few tests, first on Red Hat 7.2 and then on Red Hat 7.3, but
> Performer doesn't work ! Why ?
>
> Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10)
>
> A) with nVIDIA driver 2960 (downloaded from nVIDIA's site)
>
> System running with kernel for multi-processor architectures
>
> 1. execution of perfly: the program halts when it shows the violet sentence
> "OpenGL Performer". If i kill the process (perfly) and go back to the shell,
> there are not error/warning messages and the last message that i see is "PF
> Info: Initialized 1 Channel".
>
> 2. execution of earthsky demo: the 3D object doesn't move (instead of to
> rotate
> in clockwise) and the program halts; there are not error/warning messages
> and the last message that i see is "PF Notice: pfdLoadFile_obj: cow.obj"
>
> 3. execution of earthsky demo modified (PFMP_APPCULDRAW instead of
> PFMP_DEFAULT): the 3D object rotate, but in anticlockwise ! No
> error/warning messages from the linux shell.
>
> System running with kernel for single/multi-processor architectures
>
> 1. execution of perfly: the program seems work, but it doesn't manage the
> input's mouse (i cannot remove, rotate or scale the object)
>
> 2. execution of earthsky demo: like point 3
>
>
> Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3)
>
> A) with nVIDIA driver 2960
>
> All the same tests and all the same results of the Red Hat 7.2 case
>
> B) with Dell driver (nvidia-1.0-2880) for precision workstation (downloaded
> from Dell's site)
>
> All the same tests and all the same results of the Red Hat 7.2 case
>
> The nVIDIA driver provide a module for the management of AGP bus. If the AGP
> bus is drived from nVIDIA module (instead of the kernel's agpgart module), the
> previous results don't change. At last i've done a remote test with a PC where
> Performer works: if from Dell workstation i execute in remote (using ssh)
> perfly or earthsky, they work but viceversa (in remote from PC) no: all the
> same results.
>
> Can you help me ?
>
> Thank
>
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