Re: FGFS

On 01/06/11 21:41, Donn Washburn wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 03:25 PM, Curtis Olson wrote:
>> Video drivers?  I differ from Arnt's philosophy and make sure I run with
>> nvidia graphics hardware + the nvidia drivers on all my linux machines
>> ... seems like there are always problems with other vendors and
>> open-source 3d drivers and opengl libs.  It's good some people try these
>> other paths and hopefully they can contribute to improving support for
>> other hardware, and I'd love for a future with many 3d graphics choices
>> under linux, all of which are rock solid ... but until that day arrives,
>> I just stick with nvidia hardware and run their drivers.
>>
>> Curt.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
>>
>>      I have about had it with openSuSE and or FGFS
>>
>>      I completely re downloaded everything (to confirm it was not a previous
>>      error on my part) for fgfs and recompiled it installed it and all I get
>>      is a blue FGFS screen with no image but a mountain range way far away on
>>      any model.  No airport, no runway and no menu selection.  Everything
>>      compiled what looked correct.
>>
>>      I think it may be a fgdata problem or openSuSE/KDE4 hogging the visuals.
>>
>>      The last time I built a cvs/git flightgear and fgdata, OSG, plib,
>>      freeglut, freealut, and Simgear.  They worked and I made rpms.
>>
>>      Also flightgear had some warning compile errors dealing with uiuc.
>>
>>      Is anyone else seeing this type of problem
>>
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>
> Thanks Curtis;
>
> The NV driver I have comes from and NV repos site.  It boots up with the
> NV Boot Splash.  But is not a built one by me.  I will try to get one to
> boot because For about 15 or 20 years I have built every kernel
> including git kernels.  However, I think openSuSE has made it not doable
> on the version I have.  None of them boot using oldconfig or
> /proc/config.gz
>
>

How exactly do they fail to boot, at what point?
I know the nvidia module fails to build for 3.0.0-rc1 as changes there 
are needed, but every other vanilla kernel up to 2.6.39-git17 builds.
At 2.6.39-git you need the nvidia conftest.sh patch or simply insert 
"-O2" as shown below.
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Alternatively, you can make this change in the driver's conftest.sh script:

     @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
     }

     build_cflags() {
     - BASE_CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ \
     + BASE_CFLAGS="-O2 -D__KERNEL__ \
     -DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"#conftest$$\" -DKBUILD_MODNAME=\"#conftest$$\" \
     -nostdinc -isystem $ISYSTEM"
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All up to and including 3.0.0-rc1 builds and boots, no nvidia driver yet 
for 3.0 of course.
Regards
Sid.
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