Max Waterman (maxw++at++sgi.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:23:52 -0700
If the former, please send us the output of /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -vv. This will tell
us if you have a multipipe setup and what combinations are setup on each pipe.
You could also try running 'perfly -M 0 town.perfly', which will run perfly in
single pipe mode.
Max.
Brian Corrie wrote:
>
> Hello pfAll,
>
> I have noticed a very strange "feature" when using Perfly on our Onyx2, 6.5,
> Performer 2.2.1. When I start up perfly with the town database, it starts
> up fine but when everything is loaded and I try to "drive" forward the view
> I get is skewed slightly. That is, it appears as if I am looking out the
> front left of my "windshield" instead of out the front, alhtough I am
> driving in the direction I would expect (straight forward). The same happens
> for the cuevadefuego demo from the Friends CD. Unfortuantely, we don't have
> any other 6.5 machines with 2.2.1 so I can't determine whether or not it is
> a 2.2.1 thing, a 6.5 thing, or an Onyx2 thing...
>
> This does not happen on our Octane, 6.4, Performer 2.2. In fact, there are
> other differences as well, including the GUI for perfly being different. Is
> this a known bug or problem? I notice that in Patch 3229 (which we do not yet
> have installed) there is a bug fix for the "lookahead" token in cliptexture
> files, but I wouldn't think this would affect perfly on the town DB. As far
> as I can tell nothing else in the patch applies.
>
> Anyone else experience such an effect, and if so is there a fix? I will
> likely just apply the patch and see how that goes, but I thought I would
> ask first.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brian
>
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