[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live 4.5 - OSGEarth

[Brian Hamlin]

running without --sky fixes the problems for me (!)
    -Brian


On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:

> Am Montag, 28. Februar 2011, um 06.49:16 schrieb Hamish:
>> Cameron wrote:
>>> Maybe we should test to see if the application is being run inside a 
>>> VM,
>>> and provide a popup warning if so.
>>
>> pop up a message at login next to the hello message perhaps?
>> or just amend the welcome.txt message with a note which is shown to
>> everyone.
>>
>
> osgEarth ships with a new executable which checks OpenGL capabilities:
> osgearth_version --caps
> My proposal is to start the tutorial calling this to check wether the 
> viewer
> will work. I will ask the osgEarth people for help on this.
>
> Pirmin
>
>>> Is it possible to test if you are running in a VM?
>>
>> you can look at what's in /proc/cpuinfo, but I doubt that's very 
>> reliable.
>> part of the point of having a VM is that the experience is seamless.
>>
>>
>> fwiw, my experience is that VMs are pretty well established with 
>> those in
>> my department who use Macs (needed to run pc-only software), but as 
>> for
>> even the most technical-aware pc and unix people, not at all. ymmv.
>>
>>
>> Hamish
>>
>>
>>
>>
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