Sid Boyce wrote:
> I haven't tried Flightgear on other than SuSE/openSUSE, their distro
> version was pretty useless, so I have always built my own.
> No problems with Nvidia cards, I tend to run on the latest vanilla
> kernels and I provide feedback on their driver, VirtualBox and any other
> packages that fail so the developers know what the next kernel complains
> about - fixes are often very speedy indeed.
>
> There was a longstanding problem with CH Yoke and Pedals dating back to
> around 2.6.15 where the devices had to be replugged after a reboot for
> the controls to function, however acting on a patch that fixed a CH
> Joystick, I altered the source to include my devices along the same
> lines - it worked and is now in the mainline kernel since May this year.
>
I found a pair of small, el-cheapo rudder pedals at Goodwill for $2.
It has a serial connector- hope it's not gonna be a lot of work to get
it going. (I could sure use the rudder pedals...)
> Apologies for the digression, but it shows what could be done with Linux
> going back 14 years.
>
My daughter loves trucks; she doesn't have money for their care, but
she loves them. One day she trades her small, cheap-to-own car for a
big, gas-drinking truck. The hood was always open on it. I pointed out
she needs a *car* to get to work. The car was a way to get to work, the
truck is a project and may not get her to work.
Similarly, everyone needs one machine that holds their work...but is
NOT their work. A collection of tools, documents, whatever, but a stable
machine you can admin without thought. And knowing Redhat as I did,
knowing Ubuntu as I do now...that's Ubuntu. And FlightGear is so simple
to put-and-keep going; it's a low intensity way to 'have it all'.
Ya really should look into Ubuntu Karmic. Nice, simple place to keep
your stuff and springboard into your projects....without becoming one!
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