On Sunday 22 December 2002 00:08, Andy Ross wrote:
> Mike Bonar wrote:
>  > GLUT: Fatal Error in fgfs: could not open display: 0.0
>  >
>  > OpenGL is installed and working fine (Gears runs great!).  It's probably
>  > something simple.  Please help.
> 
> My guess is you're logged into your desktop as a regular user, but
> trying to run FlightGear as root (because you just installed it to
> /usr/local?).  By default, only the user who logged in can run
> programs on the display.  An "xhost +" will turn this off, although
> it's probably not a good idea to run FlightGear under your normal
> userid.
> 
> Andy
> 
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> Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
> Senior Software Engineer      Emeryville, CA
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Good guess!  We have inition Houston!

Suse 8.1
plib 1.6.0
zlib 1.1.4
metakit 2.4.8.13
latest cvs snapshot
fixed the missing #include statement in ground.cxx

I just need to bind my joystick, and I am away!

Thanks all!

Mike


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