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. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
