Hi George, --- George Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dell appears to be getting their act together. A > used one for a week > that was two years old and the entire case flexed if > you push it in > slightly. Yeah, my old Sony has a relatively flexible case, but its still lasted over three years :-) > For flightgear, > 1. Make sure the video chipset is supported under > your OS > and supports OpenGL. Well, I'd like to run it under Linux, ideally. Having said that, I've *never* managed to get OpenGL running on Linux at all :-( I've tried on i830 integrated graphics, an Nvidia RIVA TNT 2 with 32MB RAM, and my current card which is another Nvidia but with 128MB RAM. Somewhere, there needs to be something thats easy enough for (obviously stupid) me to follow and make it work. Damnit, I can re-configure and compile kernels, I can use FIPS to change drive size, I have got X to work on *all* those systems. Why is OpenGL such a nightmare? So anyway, the only OS I've had it running on is Win9x. > 2. If you intend doing heavy developement of > Flightgear on the box or > Scenery "renders", I'd suggest shopping around for a > laptop that will do > more than 512MB RAM. I ntocied the difference when > moving from 128 to > 256, even though I don't do any real development. The only thing I'll probably end up doing is trying to do enhanced scenery for the Isle of Wight. Although I would like to have a bash at doing some kind of ATC/Radar screen thing, probably under SVGAlib - bearing in mind I can't get OpenGL working, and never coded for it. I've played around with a few simple things in SVGAlib :-) > 3. Go for a 30gig hard drive or bigger. Yup, the Sony got upgraded to 30 (although people I talked to at Sony said it couldn't be done), and I was thinking of 40GB for the next one. > 4. Anywthing else I have missed out.. Not really. I went to Dell's website last night, but they do look a tad pricey compared to the Toshibas. TTFN, Paul ~~~~~ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
