Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: CVS simgear : error during compilation

[dene maxwell]

Hi mate,
I'm a user not a developer. I'm very aware, being a newbie, that any 
comments I make are going to be superficial from a system perspective.

I was under the impression that the Devel forum was for "informed", and 
"system aware" discussion. I don't feel I can communicate on either of these 
levels. (hell, som of the user discussion is over my head!!!)

I have asked for help in the user forum and have had signficant help from 
Georg (heliflyer) but we've reached a dead end.


Hi Dene,

> Hi guys,
> I can't get FGv099 working despite all the help that Georg has provided
> out-of-forum.

Once again, if you want the developers to help you, your best bet is to
tell the developers:  post where they're most likely to see it, which
is in flightgear-devel, rather than flightgear-users.  Developers do
come here, but not in as great numbers, and they're less likely to read
everything (particularly something buried deep in an existing thread
like this one).

When you post there, provide useful information.  This:

> I suspect it might be a video card problem as I'm only using a 32Mbyte 
GF2
> MX card and I suspect the new features demand more video memory than is
> available.
>
> I am trying to get a 0.5-1.0Ghz PIII, 512Mbyte, Nvidia 512Mbyte, 7200rpm
> HDD, Win 98SE/(*nix) dual boot PC sorted with Santa :-)

is all useful information, but this

> I can't get FGv099 working

isn't.  You need to tell people exactly what the problem is, in detail.
How does it fail?  What do you try to do, and what happens?  Otherwise,
the developers won't be able to reproduce the problem; and without
being able to reproduce it, it's nearly impossible to fix, since it
could be anything.

If you can, *please* take a look at:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

It is an absolutely fabulous (and not *too* long) essay on how to
report bugs -- how to give the developers what they need to solve
the problem.

-c

I have read the link above (7 lines :-)) and have understood it. I'll try a 
post to Devel.

Thanks
Dene

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