Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight gear very hard for MAC users

2011-05-20 Thread David Van Mosselbeen
On Fri, 20 May 2011 13:07:15 +1200, Glenn Hailstone glennhailst...@hotmail.com wrote: [...] Also, it seems that you can not download aircraft and scenery for MAC because they come as ZIP files, and MAC does not support zip files. If anybody can help me out it would be appreciated so that I

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight gear very hard for MAC users

2011-05-20 Thread Curtis Olson
The Mac launcher appears to have some sort of intelligent auto-installer for aircraft and scenery. I haven't tried it, but it appears that the intention is that it will know where to put things automatically and eliminate the need for the end user to have to worry about extracting the archives

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight gear very hard for MAC users

2011-05-20 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, Please read this first (especially Note section on Installing FlightGear): http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/users-guide This guide answers all of your questions. The instructions in the news below also may help you avoid the crash.

[Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Donn Washburn
Add too this is a Big Jet flying backwards across the screen It was over 19L C172P. Tail first - kind of unique. I am seeing a strange problem concerning either flightgear or fgdata. It has very large yellow letters on the bootsplash screen and then multiple big jets floating above the

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Stuart Buchanan
- Original Message From: Donn Washburn Add too this is a Big Jet flying backwards across the screen It was over 19L C172P. Tail first - kind of unique. Sounds like you've got the AI Traffic Manager enabled, and it got confused. Try disabling the traffic manager, or AI models in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight gear very hard for MAC users

2011-05-20 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, Go visit the page below for two of your questions - read-only file system and how to install zip files. http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/users-guide For avoiding crashes, you may want to try this one:

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Donn Washburn
On 05/20/2011 10:38 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: - Original Message From: Donn Washburn Add too this is a Big Jet flying backwards across the screen It was over 19L C172P. Tail first - kind of unique. Sounds like you've got the AI Traffic Manager enabled, and it got confused. Try

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Sid Boyce
On 20/05/11 21:59, Sid Boyce wrote: On 20/05/11 17:28, Donn Washburn wrote: On 05/20/2011 10:38 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: - Original Message From: Donn Washburn Add too this is a Big Jet flying backwards across the screen It was over 19L C172P. Tail first - kind of unique.

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Donn Washburn
On 05/20/2011 05:57 PM, Sid Boyce wrote: On 20/05/11 21:59, Sid Boyce wrote: On 20/05/11 17:28, Donn Washburn wrote: On 05/20/2011 10:38 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: - Original Message From: Donn Washburn Add too this is a Big Jet flying backwards across the screen It was over 19L

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs bootsplash

2011-05-20 Thread Donn Washburn
On openSUSE with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06 driver. Regards Sid. If have even seen the Tower/Terminal on the right side of the run way. I rebooted fgfs and the building are now back on the left side again. Nothing else is backward on anything I have tried. I have decided to completely

Re: [Flightgear-users] Runway not visible

2011-05-20 Thread Sid Boyce
On 20/05/11 03:42, Sid Boyce wrote: With the git version when you look forward there is a large area of colour that obscures the runway. It reports that I'm on the runway. On some aircraft it looks like you on the sea and at the top of the screen there is a jet on a runway in the distance -