Flightgear ATI Linux Based 8 Monitor SFO Tour

[Danielkchoi]

It doesn't take over 4000 dollars to set this up at the most...

[grumpyzrp]

Why not just buy a really nice DLP projector? lol

[haist82]

dude u r crazy lol)))

[TheLolikea]

Just buy a tv? XD

[ar15expert]

haha what a shitty model. Vertical stabs asshole.

[TheMasterofmod]

lol, that must have been a real pain to set up. Great video though! I like the music! I wish I had a man-cave where I could do that.

[camboy1132]

I'm going to stick with windows XP. I tried Linux 4 different time & still didn't like it. I'm not a fan of Windows Vista or Windows 7. I put those all on my PC. & wasn't use to it. but I'm so use to XP I use Mozilla Firefox but Viruses where not staying out so I made sure my internet Explorer was upgraded to 8 version & and all my up dates where installed & it seems to have kept Viruses out. because as long as IE 8 is installed it sures all the pins on the hard drive even when u use Firefox :)

[FS2004ACoF]

Awesome!

[penguinatoring]

nice

but i the edges of the monitors just make it look ugly lol

[mrburnab33]

That's gay....it monitors aren't straight and I just looks gay with small screens

[Genshyu]

Thats insane

[xy274]

thats over done!!!!!

[camboy1132]

I got version 9.10 Linux,

I cant get radeon x200 linux to work I have some compatibillity issues this hard drive wont work with linux because its a earlier version seem than AMD ATI catalyst Dose not suport radeon x200 linux, has any body got it to work ?

[ZachtheEvil]

There is no "9.10 Linux." There is, however, a 9.10 Ubuntu, which is a Linux distro. As for your question, it can be made to work; you may want to check out the opensource drivers if Catalyst does indeed not work with it.

[YousefAB]

How are you able to play games on Lunix (Ubuntu) ?

[ubuntututorials]

They are specifically written for it. Also some Windows games work for it using Wine.

[sotkajarvi]

As with any operating system. There is loads of games for linux. And no, not all are crap games. Flightgear is a good one, then there is Savage 2. For Quake 4 and Doom 3, there is a specific linux installer. And yes, windows games are playable with Linux using Wine, cedega and cross over office...

[impcnrd]

FUCKING WIN!!

[mikesdav]

lol just get a big screen and a small screen for multi display

[smo7an]

smooth

[thelegendarypaki]

monitors are crooked.

[wookieeassassin]

You can get a 6 monitor (each 19 inches) "command center" for $2000. Yeah, it is expensive but it isn't necessary to be a millionaire to have it.

[Adohleas]

Not just crooked, some are different sizes.

[walter0bz]

i set up 9 monitors recently, but it made me claustrophobic :)

[apokkalyps]

hilarious music btw

[sotkajarvi]

Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone. From the Top Gun soundtrack...old skool. :D

[AnimoNous]

i liek it!

[danielmpr]

are u like a fucking Millionaire or something?

[Ace2016]

a millionaire could afford 8 monitors of the same make and model.

[mognovox]

he probably just bought 8 cheap monitors and hooked um together

[dixierebel1929]

@danielmpr No, Ben Bernanke's running the printing presses so he can buy these government subsidized monitors. In other words, he's a trillionaire, or the opposite of a trillionaire depending on how you wanna look at it.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

You're using the wrong jet. Supposed to fly a tomcat with that tune. ;)

[TTL7919]

Nice setup, I would like to have one too :-) I really wonder how many hours (and screams) you needed get the set up with the ATI cards under Linux done. I am already happy if my fglrx driver does not crash ;-)

[mavflysagain]

With current drivers - "aticonfig --initial=dual-head --adapters=all -f" does the trick.

[h635]

you shoulda gotten a one big lcd hdtv instead of 8 moniters, lol.

[atan0k]

big lcd hdtv = 1920x1080 = 2 073 600 pixels

8 monitors = 5120x2048 = 10 485 760 pixels

this assuming they're 1280x1024 monitors.

[enyawix]

looks cool, but I would like to see some day to day task like a kernel compile or gzip -9 compression

[x0shoot0x]

man bist du so reich das du dir 8 bildschirme brauchst

[OghamTheBold]

Like flying a jet powered shed

Looking out the shed windows

[masterjaniuk]

OMG firegl cards are sooo expansive :O

[mayney1222]

nice setup, if only i could afford something like that

[wa2nlinux]

Awesome !! Can you share how to config it ? it using randr or xinerama ? Would you share your xorg.conf?

[c360yt]

Great Job! I am working on a 4 head similar system but having trouble with desktop. fglrx finds both adapters and activates them but X does not. Would you share your xorg.conf?

[crazyjordan154]

moms basement by any chance?

jokw ;)

nice set up :D

[mavflysagain]

It isn't a linear performance increase for a number of factors (most of them appear to be over-synchronization within the different software layers involved.

The upcoming flightgear release (sometime around Christmas 2008) has greatly improved concurrency (but still not enough to push past 2 cores worth of load on a Quad Core).

Likewise the application itself doesn't provide enough load to keep a GPU fully active (memory or load).

I can sustain 25 fps with RV620 class hardware across 5 GPUs.

[WoundedStigma]

really slick and impressive setup: what's the average framerate you are getting with that setup? And have you found the graphics hardware or the CPU to be the limiting factor?

Personally I found FG to become increasingly CPU bound (most of the complex aircraft like A-10 & f-14b hardly run reasonably), that's why I am asking.

[mavflysagain]

The framerate was somewhere between 30 and 50.

There is some interesting multi-threaed support that has come in that is actively being discussed on the mailing lists.

Unfortunately, right now, it looks like there is some sort of over-synchronization in either the driver or OSG or fg. In theory we should be able to scale with lots of parallel threads, but realistically it isn't happening. If these issues are resolved wherever then we can have some real fun :).

[mavflysagain]

Sorry, something else.

The quad-core uses about 28 % (just over one core) and the GPUs are about 25% utilized.

[eternaldragon0]

How'd you connect 4 graphics cards to one motherboard? What mobo are u using? Really insane. I bet it'll look like an imax up close.

[mavflysagain]

A lot of the higher end motherboards (AMD 790FX was used in this case) have 4 PCIe slots. You can stick 4 PCIe cards into those systems. I hear rumours of some dual chip cards driving 4 displays each (meaning 16 heads) floating around.

[feczor]

nice!!!!

[Vagmonster666]

that looks sick, but it would be hard playing games when you have space between those monitors

[mavflysagain]

Real flight simulators (and real aircraft for that matter) have airframe. It all depends on what you are trying to simulate. (But I agree, you need to invest a lot of tweaking to get the airframe and the everything perfectly aligned (which I didn't do).

[seanwasere]

can you get those 8 monitors and do a 360

[mavflysagain]

I am hoping that the flightgear developers can improve flightgear to have a single camera point with perpendicular cameras. Currently the shear model that is used assumes a flat display surface (and hence the project becomes funky at large left and right screen counts :).

[PrincessVarda]

awesome :)

[seanwasere]

very nice, how many graphics cards, and which ones

[mavflysagain]

From the info section from the driver 4 x FireGL 5600 (Same Chip as a Radeon HD 3650)

[M1AUdUsAU]

Quite impressive!

[ajc116]

omg why cant i do that

[jnolck]

That is sick!!!!!