Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: how to select aircraft without --aircraft?

2001-12-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Don Baker writes: Yes, but what happens if someone just does: fgfs Will fgfs startup with all default options, or will it attempt to startup and then fail with an unknown option --aircraft=c172? (the behavior I was seeing last night - may have been updated by now). It seems to

Re: [Flightgear-users] getting it going...

2001-12-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tuomas Jouhten writes: Hi, I'm getting the following error message when trying to run fgfs on my linux machine: FATAL: ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context. Does it ring any bells? I a linux-newbie, so please understand... Tuomas,

Re: [Flightgear-users] What is libmk4.so and where can I find it?

2001-12-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Kenneth Corbin writes: Trying to compile the 0.7.8 version under Redhat 7.1. Everything compiles and builds just find, but when I try to run it it complains that it can't find libmk4.so.0. I think I have all of the necessary subcomponents, but could very easily be missing something.

RE: [Flightgear-users] ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context

2002-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This issue is also addressed in the FlightGear FAQ with one additional link: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FlightGear-FAQ.html#5.2 Regards, Curt. Norman Vine writes: Steve Drach writes: I've searched the news groups and see that several others have the problem I now experience, but

Re: [Flightgear-users] Slow frame rate in some directions near Burbank

2002-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
You can also click with the left mouse button to center the view after panning. Robert A. Knop Jr. writes: Just downloaded and installed FlightGear-0.7.10. Some issues/questions: Please disregard this message. I realized after I typed it that I should have tried SHIFT-KP8. Duh! Sorry

Re: [Flightgear-users] Slow framerate near Burbank (real)

2002-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
One thing you could try (to see if the problem is too much scenery) is to reduce your visibility when your frame rate drops and see if that perks things back up. z and Z change the visibility on the fly. Regards, Curt. Robert A. Knop Jr. writes: (Please ignore the previous message with this

Re: [Flightgear-users] Openflight?

2002-05-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Matt Wilbur writes: I've been scouring the flightgear docs, and have more reading of docs and code to go before I give up.. But maybe someone here can answer my question? :) Are there any plans for flightgear to support OpenFlight scene databases in the near or distant future? Is the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Always with the left!

2002-09-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt writes: I am forwarding this to home so I can remember to investigate this. Is it safe to download the entire set of fgfs files from CVS, yet?? :-) To quote a simpson's episode (camp crusty when lisa was asking how safe the canoes were): It's not getting any safer, just

re: [Flightgear-users] ils - localizer backcourse

2002-10-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: You're right and FlightGear is wrong. First, Robin Peel's database omitted the localizer for 25. I had started to rough it in a long time ago but never finished. As a result, I'm amazed that you were able to do any ILS approach at all to 7/25. That's my mess, and

Re: [Flightgear-users] getting Atlas going

2002-10-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Christiansen writes: Hi. I can't get to first base with the cvs. Do I just use: ./configure ? Or do I need to pass statements at ./configure?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks again, There should be an autogen.sh script you need to run first. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS -how to?

2002-12-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for that, that'll help me as well. I also have a OT cvs question. When I grab the sources from cvs for FlightGear and related packages it's very nice I type the command a few seconds later I'm getting new stuff. With another project that I grab from cvs it

Re: [Flightgear-users] 1.0?

2003-01-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Giraud writes: Someone with access to these tools is going to have to take responsibility for doing this of course. Sure, with a little advance notice, I could do it. Would you be willing to package up the current Mac version? Then we'll have all the issues ironed out for the

RE: [Flightgear-users] Starting fgfs results in a crash

2003-01-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Kristian Karl writes: I started it in a DOS window, in which I had CD'ed my way to the installation directory, and then ran the bat file. The version is 0.9.1 using fgfs-win32-bin-0.9.1c.zip and fgfs-base-0.9.1a.zip from Dec. 13, 2002. I don't think it is a problem with Win2K in general,

Re: [Flightgear-users] segmentation fault

2003-01-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
AL Mills writes: I don't remember who asked, but, I have an Abit Siluro GeForce 2 MX 200 w/32 mb ram. It has the NVidia chipset on for the GeForce 2 MX 200. I downloaded the GLX driver / kernel for Linux that they put up for download in December. My card is listed as one that is compatible

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some Ideas for the Installation and Getting Started Documentation

2003-01-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
As far as I can tell, the configure script does not support disabling any of the FDM's. Personally, I agree with Michael and would like to keep it this way. If there are problems, let's address them. Each FDM has something unique to contribute. If we disable JSBSim, we lose our default C172's,

Re: Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tony Peden writes: Sid, I think if you go back to earlier kernels, 2.4.10ish would certainly do it, you'd have a better chance of experiencing the problem. Jon, the AMD problem was a known bug that AMD MS put out fixes for. And the problem on the Linux side was that the wording of the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Network/multiuser mode

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Merrony, Stephen (London) writes: Finally got another Linux box up and running, and tried to play with the network/multi-user modes over the weekend. The only result was a pile of core dumps. Has anyone got this working? I've been through the docs and found nothing useful. You may want

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with Fonts

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Do you have the base package completely installed (all the textures, fonts, models, etc?) Also, make sure that your --fg-root= option is actually pointing to the actual install location. Regards, Curt. Alexandre MOREL writes: Hi, I'm french so sorry for my english. I setup

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear Radeon: exit freeze?

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Pedro Vasconcelos writes: Hello, I've finally got my Radeon card to work with DRI under Linux, so I could try out FlighGear. I compiled version 0.9.1 with no problems and it works fairly well, except for one thing: I occasionally get an Xserver freeze when I exit FG or when I try to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scen2ry problem

2003-02-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
The only thing I can think of is that you installed the scenery in a different location (outside of fg-root perhaps) and used the --fg-scenery=/path option to point to it, then a day or two later forgot about that option and now you are back to the default scenery That's the only plausible

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS make problem (cout undeclared)

2003-03-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This should now be fixed in cvs. Curt. Albert Tumanov writes: Hi, I have problem (again) when compiling latest CVS source: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear-devel/FlightGear/src/FDM/ExternalPipe' source='ExternalPipe.cxx' object='ExternalPipe.o' libtool=no \

RE: [Flightgear-users] airport, navaid, etc. data

2003-03-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: A seaplane base is a couple 55 gallon drums of fuel stacked on the shore, right? :-) I've seen planes refueled by hand carrying it down a river bank in buckets. I'd hope for a dock, a ramp, and a windsock as well. Docks are *dangerous* remember you are in a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Atlas not working on windows

2003-03-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Innis Cunningham writes: Thank you Erik and Curt As I said in the previous post when I check the dos window I see lines like load_navaids:couldn't open /usr/local/lib/Flightgear/Navaids/default.nav.gz Which is linux file convention. Is it the purpose of the dll files to convert this

Re: [Flightgear-users] Atlas Socket Error?

2003-03-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ty Unes writes: I'm trying to connect Atlas to Flightgear (of is it the other way around). Anyway, the command I'm using is: fgfs --nmea=socket,out,0.5,localhost,5500,udp -or- fgfs --nmea=socket,out,0.5,127.0.0.1,5500,udp -or- fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-users] compile problems on Core Linux

2003-06-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Micha=B3_Brzozowski?= writes: I hope you guys can help me, because I really want to play this game :) this is what I see: Or make sure that plib/simgear/flightgear/etc. were all compiled with the same version of your compiler. If you upgraded gcc from 2.x to 3.x after building

Re: [Flightgear-users] compile problems on Core Linux

2003-06-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I wonder if you have multiple copies of plib (or an old copy of plib) floating around on your system??? Regards, Curt. =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Micha=B3_Brzozowski?= writes: I hope you guys can help me, because I really want to play this game :) this is what I see: make[2]: Entering directory

Re: [Flightgear-users] Questions for tutorial

2003-06-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for my fly tutorial I need some information: - What is a small aiport in the default scenery to start from? The best would be an airport with only one runway and a taxiway to try steering a plane on the ground. Do we have a map for this airport to use in the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still having problems with CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
And hopefully you saw the subsequent messages in reply that your configure.ac file is ancient and clearly not the current version. Probably the easiest thing for you to do is wipe your entire flightgear source cvs tree and refetch it. Regards, Curt. Adam writes: It seems that this message

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building FlightGear

2003-07-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
brett holcomb writes: I was just curious as to what it was needed for. I assume then the scenery is stored in compressed format. Yes, many of the larger files can be stored in gzip format on disk, and flightgear gear will decompress them on the fly ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab /

Re: [Flightgear-users] Weather and clouds

2003-07-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ray Markham writes: Is there a way of setting cloud types and/or levels in Flight Gear or is it somehow arbitrarily set? In the current version there is a Weather menu in the main menu bar. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at'

Re: [Flightgear-users] red hat anyone?

2003-08-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Thomas writes: - Original Message - From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear user discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] red hat anyone? Stefan King wrote: Has anyone ever got flightgear to work

Re: [Flightgear-users] Wow!: SRTM-3 + Terra + TerraFit

2003-08-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman writes: David Megginson wrote: Here's what it looks like with SRTM-3 and Terra: http://www.megginson.com/private/meech-lake-srtm3.jpg The lake itself seems to fit really well in the SRTM data! There's a small secret that relates to this. The terragear tools flatten

re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Exit, Stage Left??

2003-09-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: Alex Romosan writes: but this happens to all the planes, including jets. i expect a jet to go straight down the runway if i don't touch the controls, but they pull to the left. something is not quite right. Any vehicle will drift a bit -- that's why even big

Re: [Flightgear-users] libmk4.so.0

2003-09-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
el zorro writes: This seems to be a problem in Mandrake distribution, I had same problem. To fix it, please run urpmf libmk4.so.0 and take note of program that requires this library, then install it with RpmDrake. if you have luck, RpmDrake will install also the library. For what it's

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear at fullscreen

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Richard Keech writes: the --enable-game-mode option will give you full screen. man fgfs would tell you this. Just so you aren't disappointed, full screen doesn't (in and of itself) give any frame rate improvements, at least under linux. In fact, you are then rendering to the full resolutions

Re: [Flightgear-users] data logging

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Caleb N. Bonilla writes: I am trying to log what the FDM is doing, but I am unsure if it is working...I was using the c172 (JSBsim) and used the keystorke Shift-F10, and I would assume a CSV file should appear in the same bin folder as fgfs, no? Any advice? Have a look at the File-Logging

Re: [Flightgear-users] 172 landings

2004-01-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: Arnt Karlsen writes: ..real plane. How are model planes un-real, David? ;-) I tried one once, and it ran right off the end of the runway without lifting me so much as a foot off the ground. The model airplanes work ok once in a while ...

Re: [Flightgear-users] What am I good for? ( An offer to givebacktoFG)

2004-01-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: To add my 2 cents, I can see this effect with the 0.9.3 release on a notebook with ATI video card but I never saw it on my computer which features an NVidia board. Both running WinXP. It seems that occasionnaly, the fog color becomes black instead of white for one frame or

Re: [Flightgear-users] new video card

2004-02-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
rh wrote: I see everyone slamming ATI but I have had no problem getting my ATI 9100 to work, 3D and all. For an inexpensive card, I am happy so far with it's performance, not just in FGFS, but under Linux in general. That's good to hear. The world is definitely a better place (for end users

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear 0.9.3 compilation error on Slackware 9.1 (about ExternalNet.cxx and ExternalNet.hxx)

2004-03-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright wrote: cchar is no longer defined in the latest netSocket.h, 1.18. For whatever reason Steve deleted the typedef. Hmmm, does that put us in a situation where if we make this work with 1.8.0 it won't work with previous versions and visa versa? We should probably change our

Re: [Flightgear-users] Debian unstable and Flightgear 0.9.3 - why so slow?

2004-03-31 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just installed Flightgear 0.9.3 under Debian unstable distribution. But I'm always getting 1 FPS, when I run FG with default options. I think that everything with OpenGL drivers is ok (glxinfo says that hardware acceleration is enabled:

Re: [Flightgear-users] link broken for MacOS

2004-06-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tim Allen wrote: latest version here link on http://flightgear.sourceforge.net/Downloads/binary.html broken. ftp.sunsite.org.uk may be misbehaving at the moment? The link is what it should be. We have several additional mirror sites for just these sorts of occasions:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Newbie needs a little help (or maybe a lot) [video sliggish]

2004-07-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
L. Mark Bruffey wrote: Hi! I installed 0.9.4 on Linux Redhat 9. Recvd segmentation fault message attempting to start from command line. Updated a number of items indicated in the installation instructions. Finally got FG to start after upgrading video drivers, but video is now extremely

Re: [Flightgear-users] Multiple monitors - how to setup?

2004-09-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Håkan Källberg wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:19:03PM -0400, Ron Steele wrote: You don't say if this this is for windows or linux or some other OS. While I've never set up FG with multiple monitors, I've configured 4 monitor systems on linux. I am using Linux. Thanks for your

Re: [Flightgear-users] Query about Decode_binobj and btg

2004-10-13 Thread Curtis L. Olson
senthil kumar wrote: Sir, I have converted the btg file into ascii using decode_binobj. I want to know about the various terms in it (v,vn,vt,tf) and Is there any file(Exe) to convert it again into an binary format(btg)? I wrote the btg - ascii converter as a debugging

Re: [Flightgear-users] real helicopter crask

2004-10-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ethy H. Brito wrote: Once you do that you have to get the data over to FG somehow. One way to do this would be to setup FG to read FGNetFDM and FGNetCtrls packets from a separate application using something like the following options --native-fdm=socket,in,60,,5505,udp

Re: [Flightgear-users] real helicopter crask

2004-10-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ethy H. Brito wrote: Maybe I can write such app. My idea is to write a filter that reads a file with one record (n parameters) per line (60 lines per second as Mr. Curtis L. Olson suggested) and send it thru a command line configurable UDP ports. I may be saying some bullS$%#% because I do

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flyable aircraft

2004-10-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: The C-172p (which you mentioned) and PA-28-161 handle very accurately. The C-310 is flyable, if a little klunky. The J3 Cub works well, as the the Wright Flyer (it's almost unflyable, but so is the real thing). The DC-3 is usable, if not entirely realistic -- the main

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flyable aircraft

2004-10-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: The C-172p (which you mentioned) and PA-28-161 handle very accurately. The C-310 is flyable, if a little klunky. The J3 Cub works well, as the the Wright Flyer (it's almost unflyable, but so is the real thing). The DC-3 is usable, if not entirely realistic -- the main

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-0.9.6 build errors

2004-10-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Without looking too closely, have you built all the pieces (openal, plib, simgear, flightgear) with the same version of the compiler? Occasionally if you upgrade your compiler, it can change the munging scheme and then newly compiled code can't link properly with older compiled code and you

Re: [Flightgear-users] Converter for ascii to BTG

2004-10-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
senthil kumar wrote: Hai, I have converted the btg file into readable format using decode_binobj.exe. Now I want to convert the current ascii format to btg. When I searched the code I find write_bin, Whether I can use this for converting into btg? If yes, How??? Please explain

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flyable aircraft

2004-10-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
There was a push for a while to produce a newsletter, but it's more work than you'd think. Good layout tools for a nice looking newsletter seem to be proprietary. We had two people working on a first newsletter issue, but that seemed to fall through. Basically, it's a *lot* of work. A

Re: [Flightgear-users] RE: Version 0.9.6 crashes on WinXP SP2

2004-10-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Seth Cohen wrote: You can add me to the list of users who's machine crashes with XP SP2. I get the blue screen of death (BSD) with my machine. The blue screen states that it is my ATI card that is causing the crash. I checked, and I have the latest drivers installed. In fact, I just

Re: [Flightgear-users] New Livery for 747

2004-11-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Oops, wrong link. Here is the correct one: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=326mesg_id=330#330 If you want to test this new livery without the need to overwrite your own 747 directory, grab the following file which

Re: [Flightgear-users] dutch person needed

2004-11-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:50:21 +0100, Erik wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steven Beeckman wrote: Zoon means son as in The son of George W. Bush senior is George W. Bush junior. I don't think there is an old W. ..add an H. for Herbert. W is for Walker

Re: [Flightgear-users] glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: * When exiting, if the screen resolution has been changed it's not restored, effectively leaving you with a small window onto a large desktop, which you can pan around. This is a known limitation of SDL. Are you sure? Other SDL apps seem to return to the original desktop

Re: [Flightgear-users] glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: * When exiting, if the screen resolution has been changed it's not restored, effectively leaving you with a small window onto a large desktop, which you can pan around. This is a known limitation of SDL. Are you sure? Other SDL apps

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Melchior FRANZ : * Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 11 November 2004 15:57: * Erik Hofman wrote: * * * Jon Stockill -- Thursday 11 November 2004 15:19: * When exiting, if the screen resolution has been changed it's not restored, effectively leaving you

Re: [Flightgear-users] About Multiple Display Synchronization

2004-11-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tingting Wang wrote: I have seen a screenshot about the Multiple Display Synchronization. I think there are 2 keypoints: Synchronization and connect each part into a whole. How to make it? Help me!! In the docs-mini directory there is a file called README.IO which explains (among other things)

Re: [Flightgear-users] External FDM

2004-11-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Pascal CHOUKROUNE wrote: Hi, I'd like to use an external FDM with FlightGear but, despite all the searches I did, I didn't find an adequate Howto. I'm sure that a lot of people do this. It would be great if someone could send me a snippet code which show how to send/receive the adequate data from

Re: [Flightgear-users] About Multiple Display Synchronization

2004-11-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tony, Try the following option: --prop:/sim/view/config/heading-offset-deg=45 At some point, I think the original view offset command line option was broke and no one ever fixed it or changed the docs. Note that you probably want to play around with a combination of fov and heading-offset to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Aeroplane Request: Cessna Citation X

2004-11-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Gorilla wrote: I was reading a copy of Computer Pilot (or was it PC Pilot??) which had a review of a Cessna Citation X addon for FS2004. The slightly bulbous fuselage of the plane would make it a nice addition to Flightgear. For some info and photos :-

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Hi! and Help! (Problem with ALSA errors with certain aircraft).

2004-11-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 20:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Dave Martin -- Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:22: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:356:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Cannot allocate memory Damn. And ALSA 1.0.7 *is* very recent. If you are using KDE

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Joy stick setup on Windows XP

2004-12-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I apologize for not doing the homework for him before brining the question to here. But thanks for tracking this forum and helping users over there. We can't all be every where at once so I appreciate a few people are trying to cover the avsim forum and help out

Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind

2004-12-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Chris Metzler wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:19:21 + Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, is everyone who posts to this list still getting spammed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am and it's a real pita. Yes, I'm getting them, and yes, it's annoying. I keep meaning to just blacklist the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I know little about the mac, but I can tell right away that the file path you have is wrong: $/Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs If you've only ever dealt with clickable folders, the concept of file paths might be a bit foreign, but absolute paths (and I think you want absolute, not

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Alfonso J. Lebron-Berges wrote: This is the path I am using, and the results are the same. I think the use of / is right here or am I wrong? Users/alfonsol/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit [Alfonso-Lebron-Bergess-Computer:~] alfonsol% /Users/alfonsol/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Using Mac OS X hack for

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Francis X. Maier wrote: If it matters, my (invisible) .fgfsrc file is located in /Users/franx2. It is not located in /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6. That is the correct place (at least for standard unix.) Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Alfonso J. Lebron-Berges wrote: That is precisely what puzzles me. The DATA folder is in the same directory where fgfs is. And it contains all that you mention, ie: textures, models, scenery, aircraft, sounds, ... Right, but the error message indicates that FG is looking in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Francis X. Maier wrote: Curt, But that doesn't explain this response: Last login: Sun Dec 12 08:58:04 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Suanns-Computer:~ franx2$ /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Using Mac OS X hack for initializing C++ stdio... Base

Re: [Flightgear-users] Something for the weekend (giggle)

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: For anyone wondering why Dave included a giggle in the subject line, I'm guessing that it's because something for the weekend, sir? is the way British barbers used to offer to sell condoms to customers. I don't know why I know this, but I'm sure it's wasting space in my

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG on Linux requirements?

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: Unfortunately, FG is pretty graphics-intensive and needs a recent-ish card to run well. (I've heard of it running okay on TNT class cards). I'd guess that the 8meg card would struggle with the texture sizes in FG too - some of them being fairly large. If you ask around here

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from Avsim] Telnet related issue: FlightGear and Matlab are not communicating with each other as expected

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=484mode=full I believe that the aerosim blockset was developed for an older version of FlightGear. This person might want to double check which version it was designed to work with. Regards, Curt.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Meet the Fokkers

2004-12-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: Merry Christmas everybody. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?

2004-12-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bill Galbraith wrote: I'm not sure about the benefits of a 3-d panel over a 2-d panel, since I'm new to this stuff, but I believe that it would be 3-D panels. If you are building a general FlightGear aircraft, you probably want a 3d panel. However, if you want to build a cockpit and have the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?

2004-12-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: Hmm, when you say you'd like to make an instrument panel - do you mean a 3d 'virtual' one such as we have in the c172p, pa28-161, 310-3d etc or a 2d panel? Incidentally - for much of the 3d modelling in FlightGear, AC3D is easiest while Blender with its .ac export filter is

Re: [Flightgear-users] DVDraw conversion

2004-12-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bill Galbraith wrote: I have some good instruments drawn with Dataviews DV-Draw, circa 1998, (extension is .v) that I'd like to convert into .rgb files for OpenGL. The current version of DVDraw is 2.3, but it doesn't read my files. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Is it possible to pull up the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: I think that the DAFIF has separate airway data for each direction, so we should be able to infer the one-way stuff. As a funny, geeky aside, last Easter I was in Sault Ste. Marie. I accidentally left my charts in the plane, way out of town at the airport, but I wanted to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vivian Meazza wrote: It is, of course absolutely necessary to fully test and evaluate one's work :-) Having just completed my nth carrier landing, to try to find track down a bug. For what it's worth, I used to play a fair amount of video games, up until about 1997 when FlightGear became

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgrun install problem

2004-12-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Don Oliver wrote: Jorge, Thanks for that. I installed these, and now FL/Fl.h, fl_numericsort, and gl_start are now yes answers. However, ./configure still shows the other nos, and make still gives the same error message. Do you have any ideas for these? Configure scripts typically are setup to

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgrun install problem

2004-12-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Don Oliver wrote: --- Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configure scripts typically are setup to work on a variety of platforms, so some thing will be found and some things not found. Typically the script will abort if it finds that something is missing. But if windows.h is missing

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery concerns

2004-12-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:55:41 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 28 December 2004 14:35, Frank Olaf wrote: To where should I direct concerns about the scenery? There is quite a large portion of scenery near my home which is terribly incorrect. From N60.50 to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery concerns

2004-12-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frank Olaf wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:55:41 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 28 December 2004 14:35, Frank Olaf wrote: To where should I direct concerns about the scenery? There is quite a large portion of scenery near my home which

Re: [Flightgear-users] Playstation 2 Linux

2004-12-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ethan Price wrote: I was looking at the playstation 2 linux kit on ebay (it is now discontiuned) and was wondering if anyone knew 1.Will a redhat linux distribution of FG (according to the PS2 linux community the linux software is comparable to Redhat linux 0.7) work at all, and 2. should I

Re: [Flightgear-users] Keyboard Keys not functioning

2005-01-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Arthur Wiebe wrote: So is the manual incorrect then? Right in http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/InstallGuide/getstartch5.html#x10-590005.2 9/3 Throttle That should be 9/3 on your keypad which is the same as PgUp/PgDn on a standard (US?) pc keyboard. Curt. -- Curtis Olson

[Flightgear-users] Happy New Year

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
It's the start of a new year, so I thought it might be fun to look back on 2004 and recall some interesting FlightGear facts and events, and then look forward a bit to the upcoming year. 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded

Re: [Flightgear-users] Speaking of always turning...

2005-01-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:50:27 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that every plane I take off in pulls to the left upon take off? I keep having to hit the right rudder to keep the plane on the runway. Wassupwiddat? :) FlightGear's number

Re: [Flightgear-users] Speaking of always turning...

2005-01-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: I don't know if we're modelling this or not, but with full power you often need a lot of rudder to keep a plane straight during the takeoff roll even when there is no crosswind. During the landing roll, with no power, it is a lot easier. I'm definitely not trying to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: City name plates?

2005-01-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Geoff Reidy wrote: Which program is that? I was trying to use gpsdrive which comes with debian with the nmea or garmin output of fgfs but haven't got it to work. It would be great if we could use this program. In theory (as in not really tested) FG should be able to directly read the gps

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear beeps at the beginning for fewtimes, then crashes

2005-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Pinging the FAQ maintainer ... ! Dan Duris wrote: Thanks for explaining, I can announce success with the drivers downloaded from link posted. FlightGear has started, it's a bit slow, but I will just change the details I guess. Now it's time to start learning how to fly ;-) Thanks again, Dan On

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flying Helicopters ?

2005-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bill Galbraith wrote: You don't 'enter auto-rotation' just because you lose power. I haven't flown or looked at this model at all, but in a helicopter with irreverisble controls, if you shut off all power, yes, you are going to lose control, because there is nothing to move the swashplates, the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Let me try again... {Multihead computer}

2005-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bill Galbraith wrote: Sorry to beat a dead horse here, but I don't want to give up on this idea...at least not yet. Sometimes you have to give the impossible task to someone that doesn't know it can't be done, in order to get results. I'm still interested in the multihead, single computer

Re: [Flightgear-users] Let me try again... {Multihead computer}

2005-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bill Galbraith wrote: In that case it makes sense to have a single master copy of FG running on a single computer and driving all your cockpit displays. 2d cockpits are probably the most appropriate (and easiest) for this sort of application. I would suggest that you create a big giant

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with Version 0.98 - sound card

2005-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: My bad. The problem was in the spin animation, not in the sound code. Two changes at the same time :--( BTW : Someone know how to start the engine of the Beaver ? It includes a readme. I think you need to press f to select a fuel tank, and then you can start the engine

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Problems with Version 0.98 - sound card

2005-01-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Frederic Bouvier a écrit : By popular demand, here they are : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgrun-0.4.5-20050124.zip ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgfs-0.9.8-20050124.zip Changes includes : fgfs : - right version number - sound fix from

Re: [Flightgear-users] resolving sound problems

2005-01-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: I am so glad this was fixed - it was the number 1 question we kept getting from new users in the IRC channel. :) All those nagging users started to irritate me ;-) Watch out, if you let those users get to you too much, before you know it you'll be

Re: [Flightgear-users] how do I disable 'dynamic' textures?

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
D Wysong wrote: Can I keep FG from going back into plib and fiddling with textures once the sim is up/initialized!? I'm using a custom texture that I created using OpenGL directly (instead of via plib) and I'm getting HOSED when FG decides to go load new textures (... or when it does whatever it

Re: [Flightgear-users] Airports

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Grayham Smith wrote: Hi all, I am running FG on Windows XP and the package is running without errors. 1/In the Airport selection menu there are some 57 US Airports to choose from. The documentation suggests there should be over 2000 airports to select from. How does one

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery Documentation (was: 3D Rendering Problem)

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Giles Robertson wrote: We get a lot of queries about installing scenery. I've put a page up on the wiki: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/flight_gear/installing_scenery.html?wpid=16 8815 But could people check that that's correct? Giles, A couple things. For windows users, I think this is the wrong

Re: [Flightgear-users] Multiple PC FlightGear using the --native protoocol

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Rahul Prasad wrote: Can someone help me configure FlightGear to run on multiple PCs? I am trying to set up a master node that is connected to the input device, and slave nodes that take there input from the master. Im running FlightGear under Linux and using the command line options pasted

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