Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendation

2003-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Matthew Law writes: Me too. Using the latest drivers i still see the sky flash from blue to black occasionally... I've seen the black sky flashing a few times recently too ... anyone have any ideas on this? Skymaster Erik? Not instantly. It might have something to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Command Options

2003-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, John Wojnaroski wrote: Tried the same with FG to create a left and right windscreen display by opening two FG windows on a single machine with the loopback address but either OpenGL, glut, or the driver allocates all the GPU cycles to the first window opened and the second

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NMEA *out* to a Garmin

2003-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I was hoping to be able to do this with my etrex handheld, but I concluded it was not possible. I'm guessing that it probably won't work for you either, although if there is a menu that says NMEA *IN*, that sounds promising. Perhaps the unit needs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Command Options

2003-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: So, my general gut feeling is that you'll get much better results (for out-the-window scene rendering) using 2 machines rather than one machine with two heads. See my previous post about the nvidia driver - the 2 heads can be configured as a single

Re: [Flightgear-devel] about the teleporting bug

2003-12-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe what we need is several menu items such as: start at an airport on the ground start relative to an airport in the air start relative to a fix in the air Then each of these could have separate call back functions tied to the ok which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Command Options

2003-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Command Options On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: So, my general gut feeling is that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] about the teleporting bug

2003-12-07 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is there any way to build smarter, higher level dialogs with our current menu system, or are we stuck just being able to manipulate the low level properties? Write the output to the low level properties, and bind a Nasal script to run after dialog-apply? You can do your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location dialog

2003-12-07 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is there a way to preset certain property values when opening up a dialog box? I see that we can force arbitrary property values when clicking ok, but it would be nice to force some default values when a dialog box is opened. Not right now, unfortunately. The property

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NMEA *out* to a Garmin

2003-12-07 Thread David Megginson
Jon Stockill wrote: Have you tried it in demo mode? In that mode it doesn't use any input from the receiver, and it's actually possible to set the position moving using the arrow keys on the map screen - if there's any mode likely to take input from NMEA then this will be the one. I tried it in

[Flightgear-devel] Greetings from Philadelphia

2003-12-07 Thread David Megginson
I flew down to Philadelphia from Ottawa today, though unbelievably favourable conditions: the trip is almost due N-S, and since the low that dumped all the snow has moved east, I had ferocious tailwinds at altitude from the retreating side of the system. I throttled back to 65% power (and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:18:01PM +, Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running ext3 so normally rebooting, even after a crash would not be a problem, but in this case I exceeded the last check date threshold so it ran a full fsck on me. [...] bitchy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Simon Fowler writes: Actually, ext3 is a better choice than XFS if you really care about your data - it does full data journalling (at a performance cost), unlike XFS which only journals metadata. Since it halves your write performance people generally don't use it, but it's there in ext3 . .

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:35:57PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Simon Fowler writes: Actually, ext3 is a better choice than XFS if you really care about your data - it does full data journalling (at a performance cost), unlike XFS which only journals metadata. Since it halves your write

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location dialog

2003-12-07 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: I have some modifications in the works that will allow you to create new dialogs dynamically with a dialog-new command. You can then generate a SGPropertyNode dynamically or just use one in the global tree and modify it as you like before generating the dialog. OK, this is checked

RE: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-07 Thread Al West
Hi Manuel, I'm currently working on my own hardware that I'm going to connect to flightgear. It has a RS-232 serial port with USB option. Currently I'm busy writing the firmware and host software. http://cockpit.varxec.de/electronics/PIC_homecockpit_control.html Wow, what you have done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NMEA *out* to a Garmin

2003-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, David Megginson wrote: I tried it in simulation mode, which simply keeps the last known position, and lets me pan around the map (but not actually move the reported position) -- it did not work with NMEA. How do you get to demo mode? Sorry, I meant simulation mode - on my