Martin van Beilen writes:
> Whoa there! I didn't even have the opportunity to try pre1 yet.
> 
> Anyway, this is my first try since the FlightGear-2.7.8 release.
> 
> Build status: Success
> Processor:    Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
> Graphics Card:        the venerable Voodoo2
> OS:           RedHat Linux 7.2 (w/ updated gcc)
> OpenGL:               Mesa 4.0.1 (compiled from tarball)
> PLIB:         1.4.2
> 
> Unfortunately, the problem I had with 2.7.8 is still there.

(0.7.8) :-)

> Whenever the moon enters view, the cloud layer becomes extremely
> bright, the intrument panel becomes tranlucent, and a large white
> rectangle covers most of it.
> 
> http://www.iradis.org/gallery/fgfs-screen-014.jpg
> 
> Switching to the small translucent panel <key>s</key> gets rid of
> the large rectangle and leaves the instruments readable. It still
> looks weird though. Strangely enough this doesn't happen to me
> when flying in the States, so you might want to try with
> - --airport-id=EHAM. (That's Amsterdam Schipol, the Netherlands,
> Europe, for non-flying folks.)

This sounds a lot like it could be a driver issue.  Or we could be
running out of texture ram and your driver isn't behaving well (not
many handle this situation well.)

> I am currenty doing a complete rebuild and logging the configure
> and make output. I also removed every trace of metakit and
> SimGear to be absolutely certain that I compile against the
> correct libs. I'll keep you posted.
> 
> In the process I found one small glitch:
> 
> [mvb@localhost SimGear-0.0.17pre2]$ ./configure
> .... lots of stuff ....
> Metakit not found, you will need to install this first.
> Please read the README.metakit for more information.
> 
> However, there is no README.metakit in the distribution. (And
> yes, I know metakit is no longer part of SimGear.)

Ahhh, good catch, I'll add that and README.zlib to the next
distribution.

Curt.
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