On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:04, Kristin wrote: > I also can boot to slackware Linux but cannot figure > out how to install or run in Linux??? as I have the > Linux version of FG also. > > I tried this a few months ago and between getting > Linux going and FG gave up. I am running Slax v5.05 or > can go to RedHat 9 version whichever would work > better.
Possibly worth noting that they're both very old distributions now, Slackware is at 10.1, and RedHat discontinued their branded free distribution after 9, and collaborated with the Fedora project to produce Fedora Core (currently at version 4). I personally like Fedora, but it is a case of finding the distribution that requires the least tweaking to get it to run how you want it to, Mandrake is often cited as being good for newbies, but I haven't tried it myself... Windoze or Linux, gameport joysticks require manual setup (win - install driver, linux - modprobe appropriate modules). I have however, had an ancient 2 button gameport joystick working with flightgear under linux (as well as my new usb one - after a few false starts), so may be able to help there. Assuming you have a linux distro installed, I can try and help you get flightgear up and running on it, although I'd reccomend installing a newer distro than rh9 or slax5. I haven't done any coding further than scripting languages since I fully switched to linux a few years ago (mostly because I find that someone else already wrote it, and it's open source :), but I might have a go at throwing together some sort of joystick xml writer gui for flightgear (patch for fgrun?). -- Laurie Bradshaw _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
