On Mon, January 29, 2007 10:05 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I have made my son's machine a dual boot. Win98 SE and FC5. The video >> card >> is a G-Force nVidia "NV18 GeForce4 MX 4000 8x". >> >> The FC5 found it and installed the driver. Every M$ driver I download >> says >> no nVidia chip found, then exits. >> >> I'm tired and disgruntled. >> >> The idea is, he can do his flight simulators on the M$ side, web surf on >> Linux. When I let him surf in M$, in a few weeks the machine is foobar >> from downloads that do evil. >> >> Any idea what is happening or where I might find the correct driver? > > What is the flight simulator program? I do a lot of messing around with > WINE <http://www.winehq.org> and would be interested to see if the > simulators could be made to run under Linux with WINE, thus avoiding the > whole M$ problem altogether. > > Perhaps an Installfest project? > > Gus >
I struggled with Wine on this, including the pay version, and concluded that it is, at best, alpha SW. I don't want this to be a big project, having many other ways to waste my time productively. He's got a dual boot and he's got to accept that ;-) -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
