Hello Jon, On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 05:19, Jon Berndt wrote: > Wow. Quite a history. Welcome. How'd you find out about FlightGear?
Actually I don't remember at this point :-). I strongly suspect that it was at some point of working one some scenery or something for m$fs that wasn't working according to the docs was busily hacking in the dark trying to get it to work and someone suggested that there was such a thing as an open FS and how wonderful that would be. I looked at it and even downloaded the w32 version, but never played with it much with the problems I had with w98. Outside of the usual problems with m$ stuff it turned out that my micron PC133 DIMM RAM wasn't :-(. When I first attempted to install Mandrake 8.2 on this box, it blew out regularly. I remembered something an old mentor (who kept a linux boot diskette to check RAM out) told me - if linux won't run, you got RAM problems. Sure enough I did, which undoubtably was the cause of the endless corruption, BSOD and host of other problems with w98 (I promised myself that was the the last m$ product I would have). Incidentally, It turned out that that stepping the RAM back to 100 MHz seems to have solved the problem. I ran RAM tests on the box for the better part of a day with no problems where at 133MHz it wouldn't even make it through the quick test. No problems since :-), but then again I only boot w98 anymore for my scanner and CDRW. Now, if I can just track down the missing Opengl and (?)glut libs I can get FG up and running again here. The stuff might be in suse, but apparently not in M8.2 :-(. Been reading the docs and trying to figure out what I need to do to resolve this. Take care, Vikki. -- Victoria Welch, WV9K/7, SysAdmin, Embedded Systems Designer. "Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. "Micro$oft Windows. I'll bet you can't install it just once!" _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
