[Flightgear-devel] OT: Laptop! - Frame Rate

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Horler
Hi, Got my Laptop, installed Linux, installed the latest ATI driver (although only running SuSe's 9.1 updated kernel - 2.6.5) I'm running fgl_glxgears (probably not an unbiased test given it's ATIs code I would guess). I'm getting 490fps - looks good. I'm going to investigate exactly what

OT: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Laptop

2004-07-17 Thread Chris Horler
Should probably end this thread now, the topic is wondering from being in the slightest flightgear related. Bad form to reply to my own post. I have decided not to go with an nvidia based system because the performance seems that much worse compared to the 9700 based ati graphics in some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Laptop

2004-07-13 Thread Chris Horler
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 03:04, Al West wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 00:39, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+replacement+battery returns 577,000 hits, FWIW, auxillary drops those hits to 17200: http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+auxiliary+battery One thing to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Laptop

2004-07-12 Thread Chris Horler
You specifically need to decide whether weight is a factor for you: (a) a desk top replacement, will weigh about 8 lb ... a luggable (b) a lightweight powersaver, will weigh about 4 lb ... no gaming conversion 2.2lbs = 1kg, so I guess I'm talking a 'not quite desktop replacement at ~7lbs.' My

[Flightgear-devel] Laptop

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Horler
Good afternoon, I've been 'away' for a while - no internet connection for two months, didn't really miss it. I now have ~5000 emails to catch up with, luckily most of those are mailing list related. I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches). I wondered if anyone had a Rock

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Horler
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches). I wondered if anyone had a Rock Pegasus Ti with a 1.7GHz Pentium -M ( new core type) and 1GB of memory and a 7200rpm HDD. This is what I'm considering buying at the moment. snip I've never bought a loptop for myself, but when I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Horler
No, I think you two just crashed it :-) pipped at the post... Is this the plane where the three hydraulics systems pass adjacent to each other next to the tail engine? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Horler
I've not read all the mails, my apologies if I'm duplicating. I'm reminded of the cartoon Tail Spin... this might be an idea (drawing on Normans earlier Tail..Tale) also Cabin Talk Flight Times My favourite of the suggestions I've seen so far was Gear Chatter Chris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Horler
On Monday 03 May 2004 10:37, Chris Horler wrote: I've not read all the mails, my apologies if I'm duplicating. I'm reminded of the cartoon Tail Spin... this might be an idea (drawing on Normans earlier Tail..Tale) It might have even been called Talespin actually... also Cabin Talk Flight

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Concorde

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Horler
I've been messing around in my spare moments recently... I've a few more things to do before finishing. attachment: concorde.png___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: RFC: Concorde

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Horler
Don't want to rain on your parade, but someone donated a Concorde already. There was just nobody who wanted to reduce the *many* vertices and re-apply the textures afterwards. Blender is quite good at reducing, but it would still mean a lot of work. If you want to continue to work on your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d audio and doppler shift

2004-04-29 Thread Chris Horler
It's even better. You can hook up your 5.1 amplifier and speaker set using ALSA: http://floam.ascorbic.com/how-to/alsa5.1 Finally a fitting moment has come to test my 5.1 digital set up... unfortunately I won't get time until the weekend... ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Helicopter Animations

2004-04-28 Thread Chris Horler
* Jim Wilson -- Wednesday 28 April 2004 06:17: Probably the blades are doing a lot more than just spinning around the hub. Indeed (I knew this), but for a slave machine and potentially multiplayer I do not believe it is sensible to do any more than get the propeller spinning and when it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] simgear/props/props_io.cxx: unix windows axis differences

2004-04-27 Thread Chris Horler
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 20:19, Melchior FRANZ wrote: It's basically a joystick hack, and should stay that way. Well I'm afraid to say I've been busy and are only just catching up on the mailings. I agree with the above. I think the long term solution should be a joystick configuration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL runtime error

2004-04-25 Thread Chris Horler
Flightgear and Simgear builds ok on SuSE Linux 9.0, but when I try to run Flightgear I get this error message: I'm also running SuSE 9.0 with the same default openal packages. Initializing OpenAL sound manager fgfs: pcm.c:1050: snd_pcm_writei: Assertion `pcm-setup' failed. I don't get this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jsbsim trim

2004-04-25 Thread Chris Horler
When the a/c is stationary the force on the wheels is the aircraft weight less the lift due to airflow over the lifting surfaces (a function of wind). As the a/c progresses on takeoff the above effect should change as the a/c gains speed. I may have forgotten about gear expansion / damping.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenAL runtime error

2004-04-25 Thread Chris Horler
Initializing OpenAL sound manager fgfs: pcm.c:1050: snd_pcm_writei: Assertion `pcm-setup' failed. I'm using openal version 20030811-83 and openal-devel version 20030811-83 as der standard for SuSE 9.0 Got the same here with Linux 2.6.5 and the OpenAL from SuSE 9.0. Then I replaced

[Flightgear-devel] Helicopter Animations

2004-04-25 Thread Chris Horler
I wrote a patch to get simple helicopter animations to work on a slave machine. I didn't look into the source too much at first - I wrote most of the patch on the Linux Developer expo day. I now realise I missed something. I think the ExternalNet.cxx file is used when the native protocol is

[Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Horler
Gents, Has anyone tried multiplayer? I haven't, but wondered if any representation of other a/c was in the property tree? Thanks, Chris. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Jsbsim trim

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Horler
Jon Anyone else interested. I reset the c172 default start up a/c (reset or not this happens). I reset then put parking brake on. Leave it for 5 mins and then notice it's yawed slightly to port. Chris. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jsbsim trim

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Horler
Andy, It's a misfeature in the gear modelling. YASim has pretty much the same behavior. Both FDMs model gear force as a function of skidding velocity, which is fine for dynamic solutions. But a gear that is planted on the ground is capable of holding an aircraft at zero velocity, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL update

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Horler
Jon, I did a google search but so far have not found the words cygwin and openal together in a meaningful web page. http://cvs.seul.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb-1.80.cgi/games/openal/linux/configure.in This looks like it could be the openal cvs source tree (I don't have it to check). If you search for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Horler
I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Oooh yes, from several announcements I have the impresseion that the FlightGear setup in the Wasp is really the main attraction of the whole show ! Well I found several interesting things, the .org stand was worth a visit. Flightgear occupied most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] X-43A flight apparently successful

2004-03-28 Thread Chris Horler
On Sunday 28 March 2004 06:35, Jim Wilson wrote: Jon Berndt said: Today's hypersonic X-43A flight was apparently successful, though I have not seen much news on it, yet. It should appear here: I can see the benefits of hydrogen to propel a vehicle like that. I didn't see any reference to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Horler
Sorry I've not had the opportunity to reply to this earlier (holiday away on business). I was responsible for the spitfire model. Unfortunately the commitments of work and trying to have a social life didn't agree with continuing it. I hope to at some stage get some very detailed pictures