On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:00:03 +1100, Pigeon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > There's another request: Is anybody on this list who has experience > > in createin live-CD's like Knoppix ? It would be nice to have a > > FlightGear live-CD to give away - or at least to have a CD image on > > out FTP mirrors that we can point at. > > I have done some live cds stuff for work. And in fact I'm also in > progress of making a linux live usb flash drive myself too. ..me 2, off and on since a coupla years back ;o) > My feeling is making a live cd that runs FG is not hard. The tricky > part would be having it to automagically setup things like X with good > 3d hardware acceleration, or perhaps joysticks, etc. > > For example with nvidia cards we might need to download, install and > configure X by itself at boot time, as we probably can't just ship the > nvidia proprietary driver(?) ..chk out Kanotix and Games-Knoppix, they actually ship the binaries on the iso's. Games-Knoppix' ATI support is _uselessly_ buggy for at least the 128bit 9250, ATI proprietary driver cannot use it and vice versa, and the GPL DRI etc "radeon" (and "ati") driver is thrown away by the Games-Knoppix X setup, which sees the hardware and fucks up by loading ATI's "fireglx". Kanotix is sort of ok last year and is on my todo-list. ;o) > But anyway, I'm willing to help and spend sometime looking into this. .."damn, _everything_ happens _right_ now!" ;o) KOSH? ;o) ..for parametric 3d modelling, have any of you guys played with BRL-CAD? http://brlcad.org/ , is GPL, I use it for my gas power plants (thermochemical gasification). Decided to try it as I found no easy way to do parametric modelling in Blender, BRL-CAD is _neat_, and David M should enjoy the Emacs-like Jove cli. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
