Danie Heath writes:
> Hi all
> 
> So my pc is back online after it passed away recently :-) but now I have a 
> different problem (don't worry, it's not the Metakit compiling problem again.)
> 
> Here's a short summary of my system : 
> AMD 1000 MHz
> 256MB RAM
> Leadtek NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX64
> OS : Redhat 7.2 Enigma
> 
> Ok, so I tested my system on Linux before compiling Flightgear (to sort out 
> the display card issues).   I tried to play TUX Racer (opengl game that comes 
> with Redhat), and got framerates of about 1 frame/second.  I went to NVIDIA's 
> website, downloaded and installed the correct drivers, and now I don't know 
> what the frame rates are anymore (easily above 30 frames/second).
> 
> Now that's a clear indication that my display card is working mighty fine, as 
> well as OpenGL and all that fancy stuff, so I compiled Flightgear.  
> Everything went well without any problems (quite impressed guys, you do 
> excellent developing). When at last I tried to run Flightgear :
> 
> ./fgfs --fg-root=/usr/local/FlightGear
> 
> it gave me the following :
> 
> GLUT : Fatal Error in fgfs : could not open display :
> 
> Can anyone please help me ?

Imediately after this in the same shell are you able to go run other
opengl applications or even any graphical application successfully?

Curt.
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