This is a known bug in the Westinghouse TV firmware. If you have one of these TVs, contact Westinghouse they'll send a rep out to upgrade your firmware.
Btw, why is a TV firmware bug in the games section? (or even on Slashdot at all?) The summary even mentions that it happens between the Westinghouse TV and cable boxes and other devices.
Maybe it's just because I'm in Silicon Valley, but when I go to the various major electronics retailers (Best Buy, Fry's, heck even Sears), it's getting more and more difficult to even purchase a new SDTV. Sure they're there, but they're tucked down the isle at the end of the TV area or someplace else inconvenient. Most of the floor real estate has gone to HDTVs. I bet SDTVs will be even more difficult to find a year or two from now.
So then the question becomes whether you want your console to take advantage of the new HDTV you just bought to replace your old aging/dead SDTV.
I've bought two wireless controllers from in the past. The first thing I do in any game is disable rumble. Rumble sucks the batteries down. Check the back of any wireless controller package and you'll see two expected play times listed: one without rumble, one with rumble. (I suppose it doesn't help that I find rumble annoying more often than not)
So Sony has to deal with the fact that rumble sucks batteries, interferes with the tilt sensors, and has to deal with the Immersion lawsuit. It's a no-brainer, kill the feature.
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By 'chasm', I mean the fact that you have to jump all the way to the escape key and then come back.
Sounds like you could use one of the old HP keyboards they used to ship with their HP/UX workstations. The ESC key was on the same row as the number keys (I think it was next to the tilde).
A story I heard was that when the keyboard was being designed, someone asked why the ESC key was there...the response was that, "Unix users need the ESC key real close.":-)
I heard it this morning on KCBS on my way into work. It was from some guy pushing to raise the sales tax in Santa Clara county to 8.75% (matching Alameda County for the highest sales tax in the state) because of the _current_ "recession and downturn in the economy". It's supposed to be voted on before May or something.
The Beta systems didn't have AGP turned on at that time. We were only talking PCI writes to the hardware. We were definately bus limited with that driver. A couple weeks after Beta shipped, AGP was implemented and we got significantly higher framerates. From there it was a matter of getting AGP 4x, fast writes, etc. working and stabalized and figuring out how to package everything all up.
The driver we're shipping with is significantly better and faster than what we had with Beta. Anyway...
*legal disclaimer* I work for SGI, and worked on the drivers for a period of about four months before returning to the Performer group to continue work on mongoose (Performer on Linux).
Yeah, I remember that. Not really a good test of the NV10. They were comparing fill rates at 640x480. The NV10 shines in fill when you start doing 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 etc. Also, I don't remember any of the tests taking advantage of hardware T&L. All the T&L code for those tests are done in software, even if you have the hardware for it. So, again, those tests didn't really touch anything the NV10 does well.
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Read about this, thought about it, was tempted to try it out...then I realized I would have to install Windows to try it out:). Almost sounds like a Microsoft marketing ploy, "Buy Windows so you can install Linux!". I mean, why else would anyone want to willingly buy/install Windows?-) Seriously, I installed Linux on a friend's 320 last week. He didn't want to re-partiton his drive or even back it up. So we went out to Fry's and got another drive to install Linux on. This distribution sounds like it may be the cure for the kinds of people who are afriad to / don't want to re-partition their disks. That's a good thing. And if it promotes the spread/use of Linux, I'm all for it:) (just wish I didn't have to install windows first:)
Pricing for the 1.0 release of Performer on Linux has not been decided yet. Therefore you will have a hard time finding pricing info on it:). The scheduled release date is November 22nd. We will definately have an answer to this question before then:).
Hardly evil. The formerly flightless penguin is getting a boost from our favorite scene graph API:) If you have a good eye, you might spot him flying around town:)
"'Linux' is not a hardware specific term". Agreed. We will try to be more specific about what processor type we release products for in the future. If you have a request for a processor type other then x86, I recommend sending the request to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com thanks
The "Using gettimeofday() clock" message is normal. The segfault is not. The next thing Performer tries to do is determine if any GLX extensions are present via glXQueryExtensionsString(). If you're using a hardware accelerated driver and if your GLX module isn't loaded into your Xserver, glXQueryExtensionsString() may dump core (depends on your driver). Check to see if it is loaded: xdpyinfo | grep GLX If that is not the root of your problem, or you're using an unaccelerated version of Mesa, I recommend submitting the problem along with a stack trace to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com thanks
"Mongooses are famous for their snake-fighting ability, and are almost always victorious because of their speed, agility, and timing and also because of their thick coat."
I've heard of two people running it on their G200. (one in Orlando and one in England i believe) Can you specify more info than, "it just locks up"? Also, I would recommend forwarding on the problem to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com thanks
Give Alien a try: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ It failed on two of the three RPMs when I tried it. If you get it to work on all three, lemme know.
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This is a known bug in the Westinghouse TV firmware. If you have one of these TVs, contact Westinghouse they'll send a rep out to upgrade your firmware.
Btw, why is a TV firmware bug in the games section? (or even on Slashdot at all?) The summary even mentions that it happens between the Westinghouse TV and cable boxes and other devices.
Maybe it's just because I'm in Silicon Valley, but when I go to the various major electronics retailers (Best Buy, Fry's, heck even Sears), it's getting more and more difficult to even purchase a new SDTV. Sure they're there, but they're tucked down the isle at the end of the TV area or someplace else inconvenient. Most of the floor real estate has gone to HDTVs. I bet SDTVs will be even more difficult to find a year or two from now.
So then the question becomes whether you want your console to take advantage of the new HDTV you just bought to replace your old aging/dead SDTV.
Hey Taxi! Pad 1 please.
They have the cpu (EE) and graphics portions (GS) combined on a chip.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2
They could slap that into a PS3 and emulate the rest. Backwards compatability won't be as big of a problem on the PS3 as it is on the 360.
I've bought two wireless controllers from in the past. The first thing I do in any game is disable rumble. Rumble sucks the batteries down. Check the back of any wireless controller package and you'll see two expected play times listed: one without rumble, one with rumble. (I suppose it doesn't help that I find rumble annoying more often than not)
So Sony has to deal with the fact that rumble sucks batteries, interferes with the tilt sensors, and has to deal with the Immersion lawsuit. It's a no-brainer, kill the feature.
Sounds like you could use one of the old HP keyboards they used to ship with their HP/UX workstations. The ESC key was on the same row as the number keys (I think it was next to the tilde).
A story I heard was that when the keyboard was being designed, someone asked why the ESC key was there...the response was that, "Unix users need the ESC key real close."
I heard it this morning on KCBS on my way into work. It was from some guy pushing to raise the sales tax in Santa Clara county to 8.75% (matching Alameda County for the highest sales tax in the state) because of the _current_ "recession and downturn in the economy". It's supposed to be voted on before May or something.
The Beta systems didn't have AGP turned on at that time. We were only talking PCI writes to the hardware. We were definately bus limited with that driver. A couple weeks after Beta shipped, AGP was implemented and we got significantly higher framerates. From there it was a matter of getting AGP 4x, fast writes, etc. working and stabalized and figuring out how to package everything all up.
The driver we're shipping with is significantly better and faster than what we had with Beta.
Anyway...
*legal disclaimer*
I work for SGI, and worked on the drivers for a period of about four months before returning to the Performer group to continue work on mongoose (Performer on Linux).
If I remember right it was 114fps after we turned on fast dispatch.
Yeah, I remember that. Not really a good test of the NV10. They were comparing fill rates at 640x480. The NV10 shines in fill when you start doing 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 etc. Also, I don't remember any of the tests taking advantage of hardware T&L. All the T&L code for those tests are done in software, even if you have the hardware for it. So, again, those tests didn't really touch anything the NV10 does well.
Still no geometry acceleration?? Bah!
Read about this, thought about it, was tempted to try it out...then I realized I would have to install Windows to try it out :). Almost sounds like a Microsoft marketing ploy, "Buy Windows so you can install Linux!". I mean, why else would anyone want to willingly buy/install Windows?-) Seriously, I installed Linux on a friend's 320 last week. He didn't want to re-partiton his drive or even back it up. So we went out to Fry's and got another drive to install Linux on. This distribution sounds like it may be the cure for the kinds of people who are afriad to / don't want to re-partition their disks. That's a good thing. And if it promotes the spread/use of Linux, I'm all for it :) (just wish I didn't have to install windows first :)
Pricing for the 1.0 release of Performer on Linux has not been decided yet. Therefore you will have a hard time finding pricing info on it :). The scheduled release date is November 22nd. We will definately have an answer to this question before then :).
Hardly evil. The formerly flightless penguin is getting a boost from our favorite scene graph API :) If you have a good eye, you might spot him flying around town :)
perfly tux.pfb
perfly tux_sit.pfb
perfly tux.perfly
"'Linux' is not a hardware specific term". Agreed. We will try to be more specific about what processor type we release products for in the future. If you have a request for a processor type other then x86, I recommend sending the request to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com
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The "Using gettimeofday() clock" message is normal. The segfault is not. The next thing Performer tries to do is determine if any GLX extensions are present via glXQueryExtensionsString(). If you're using a hardware accelerated driver and if your GLX module isn't loaded into your Xserver, glXQueryExtensionsString() may dump core (depends on your driver). Check to see if it is loaded: xdpyinfo | grep GLX
If that is not the root of your problem, or you're using an unaccelerated version of Mesa, I recommend submitting the problem along with a stack trace to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com thanks
"Mongooses are famous for their snake-fighting ability, and are almost always victorious because of their speed, agility, and timing and also because of their thick coat."
I've heard of two people running it on their G200. (one in Orlando and one in England i believe) Can you specify more info than, "it just locks up"? Also, I would recommend forwarding on the problem to mongoose-feedback@corp.sgi.com thanks
Give Alien a try: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ It failed on two of the three RPMs when I tried it. If you get it to work on all three, lemme know.