From: lberto (lberto++at++md.prestige.net)
Date: 09/06/2002 16:24:43
Massei,
I got caught on this one too! It seems that the 2.0 Ghz and greater
processor is just to fast.
You need a later version of performer, 2.51 or greater
See Tom Flynn's email below!
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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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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