> VMWare's graphics driver won't be able to use accelerated graphics. You > can try, but I doubt you'll get more than a couple of frames a second.
Ah, bad news then ! :o( > It would be a shame to spend money on VMWare just for that. I don't have single penny to spend on WMWare. I donwloaed the demo version from their site, and just happen to have a friend who could give me serial number to unlock it. > OTOH if you have VMWare already it'd be a good thing to try and let us know > how it > works. I would have to install and configure it...this is my real problem : I do'nt have any skills for doing so ! And I don't have the patience spend days on the net to learn about it. I am just a norma user, not a Linux guru... > I can suggest trying dual-boot instead. Installing Windows on VMWare > will take just as much hard drive space on the VMWare virtual disk as it > would on a dual-boot disk. The big disadvantage is that the dual-boot > system won't have access to your linux filesystem when in Windows so you > won't be able to share scenery. Yep, I keep a small partition with Windows XP. I have never actually started it though, I keep it there 'just in case'. But I don't want to boot windows just to start games (or anything really). I want to play within Linux, as I spend all my time on it, but only play games a few hours per year, occasionnaly, 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there... > If you need help with managing partitions, I can offer some advice as > I've successfully done partition resizing before. My biggest piece of > advice, right off the bat, is BACK UP YOUR DATA before you try anything > of the sort. Hmmm, I don't have any way of backing my data, sadly. I have been thinking about it in the past months, I must find a solution, as I often scare myself. I am not too scared by software failures, as Linux is apparently very safe in this department, but I can't help picture my hard drive crashing. I hear that even modenr drives still crash, and I would devastated if that happened to me ! I am only 27 but I have nonetheless 10 years worth of data on my drive, I just can't afford to lose it all... :-/ If WMWare can't handly H/W accelerated graphics, I think I will try Cedega, it meant to run Windows 3D games. It's not free, but it's cheap I hear. I think the ideal solution would be to have a second machine, fitted with DOS and Windows, just to run games, which would share the keyboard/mouse/monitir of the Linux machine. This way I can stay on Linux, and switch at will to the Windows machine to play games. I could also use that second machine to backup my data, killing two birds with one stones so to speak... Vince _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
