Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: core dump with latest cvs

2002-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to be sure, you didn't remove MetaKit and re-install it in between did you? Or maybe some other libraries that might have a fresh install inbetween? Erik, What are you seeing (that I'm not) that would lead you to believe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turbine engines in FGFS?

2002-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
matthew law wrote: I'm glad to see there is so much enthusiasm for turbines! What exactly do you need? - I had planned on recording the Startup sequence, idle, mid power, high power, and shutdown from inside and outside the cockpit at 44.1khz stereo. This should be ample quality

[Flightgear-devel] Server uptime

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
At the risk of jinxing myself, I would like to point out that the primary FlightGear server (web, ftp, email, cvs, etc.) has now been up for over 103 days which ought to be some sort of milestone if it isn't. It's not a big deal for a linux box to be up this long I know, and I'm not trying to

[Flightgear-devel] BUG: Reset forgets time offset

2002-02-06 Thread Cameron Moore
I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to look into this issue before the release, so I wanted to make it a known issue. I can create an SF bug report later if need be. Anyway, the bug: When starting fgfs with a time offset (like '--time-offset=-12:00:00'), resetting fgfs doesn't maintain the

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] NASA Aerospace Blueprint Report

2002-02-06 Thread BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM)
This is a fascinating report to read: http://www.aerospace.nasa.gov/aero_blueprint/index.html JON BERNDT Project Engineer LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE OPERATIONS Office: (281) 483-0342 Pager: (281) 527-6598 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia [OT]

2002-02-06 Thread Christian Mayer
Jim Wilson wrote: It'll be interesting to see where the 4MX series ends up price wise. The performance numbers looks very promising for those with a tight budget! But note: The GeForce 4MX has hardly anything in common with the GeForce 4. They are *not* based on the same core. So when you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] NASA Aerospace Blueprint Report

2002-02-06 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM)) [2002.02.06 10:40]: This is a fascinating report to read: http://www.aerospace.nasa.gov/aero_blueprint/index.html The History Channel had a little bit about this last week on one of their 'Modern Marvels - Boys Toys' episodes about jets.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: core dump with latest cvs

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Alex Romosan writes: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reports isn't a trust worthy indicator. I'm not seeing anything like this on my systems though ... Debian 3.0, gcc version 2.95.4, latest nvidia drivers, glibc 2.2.4-7 ... pretty much the same thing except i update my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building SimGear/FlightGear fails

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Have you upgraded any cygwin packages recently? Curt. BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: Trying to build SimGear and FlightGear (using the approach I have always used) gives this: running /bin/sh ./configure --with-logging CFLAGS= CXXFLAGS= --no-create --no-recursion

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] NASA Aerospace Blueprint Report

2002-02-06 Thread Vallevand, Mark K
Curt, is this the place? http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?pan=emapdata=afbX8DbyAoeelxrDJRScQoQ4C AIJ6NFZQl2NJCldgemct6CJ8%2fGJDqfPn5G%2fIixzDBWc0El1ZtongiO99grca0SIWRNOLpxhz Vbx70XYcZeTqphU15NfMvrYlEhGdCl9ch3SYQ3XgAToC4QtEoh7t%2bH8WNDd6j%2fb9LRiuQP7w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building SimGear/FlightGear fails

2002-02-06 Thread jsb
Have you upgraded any cygwin packages recently? Curt. It used to be that when running aclocal in CygWin one had to do it like this: aclocal -I . I just updated to the very latest CygWin in all things. SimGear, at least, built easily using aclocal with NO arguments, i.e.: aclocal The

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] NASA Aerospace Blueprint Report

2002-02-06 Thread BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM)
Hey. Who hijacked my thread? ;-) Jon Vallevand, Mark K writes: Where is the Lino airpark? I've been in Lino Lakes for 11 years. I've never heard of it. Does it show up on MapQuest (or whatever mapper you use)? I drive by the seaport regularly. I can't think where the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Menus

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: It appears as though the menu is not visible by default with the latest build. True? This is a side effect of Norman's parting patches. If you move the mouse to the top of the screen the menu should appear. If you then move the mouse to the bottom

[Flightgear-devel] Assigning input channels...

2002-02-06 Thread Gene Buckle
Has anyone given any thought to allowing the user to select what joystick channels are tied to a specific input channel or axis? For instance, say you've got a USB yoke from CH and you want to flip the position of the throttle mixture levers. It would be nice to configure it like channel 6 =

[Flightgear-devel] Nits

2002-02-06 Thread jsb
1) The runways at KEDW appear to have no texture - they are pure white. 2) The date at bottom left on the screen flickers between todays date and the 15th of February. Weird. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] NASA Aerospace Blueprint Report

2002-02-06 Thread Vallevand, Mark K
I used to drive by Surfside going to the Middle School. I go to the High School more often now. I live a few blocks from Rice Lake Elementary. Regards. Mark K Vallevand Fat, dumb and happy. 2 out of 3 ain't bad. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My previous card was a Voodoo-3 ... this was a 16 bit card, 16 bit textures, 16 bit depth buffer, etc. At the time the mesa based linux drivers had some bugs which led to annoying visual artifacts, and jumpy/jerky motion. Well in defense of a great

[Flightgear-devel] Autonomous helicopter

2002-02-06 Thread Alex Perry
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/robochopper.html Their ground station seems to have telemetry but no visualization ... ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Christian Mayer
Jim Wilson wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My previous card was a Voodoo-3 ... this was a 16 bit card, 16 bit textures, 16 bit depth buffer, etc. At the time the mesa based linux drivers had some bugs which led to annoying visual artifacts, and jumpy/jerky motion.

[Flightgear-devel] UIUC in 0.7.9

2002-02-06 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, I didn't succeed in using a UIUC model in recent CVS. I know that notation of '--aircraft' has changed in some way but I can't find any way to activate my beloved Marchetti S-211. Is this still usuable ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Nits

2002-02-06 Thread BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) The runways at KEDW appear to have no texture - they are pure white. Hmmm, looks like no one ever created textures for 'dirt' runways. A couple/few of those are supposed to be concrete, I believe. Can someone create dirt runway textures before the next

Re: [Flightgear-devel] #ifdef FG_JPEG_SERVER

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Christian, In theory, this shouldn't matter because the configure system doesn't even try to build these files if the jpeg factory stuff isn't detected. But, if the current code layout is problematic for MSVC I'd be happy to accept patches. Thanks, Curt. Christian Mayer writes: Hi, in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Well in defense of a great company that got bought up and shutdown (not necessarily in that order) by the almighty competition...my voodoo3/3000 still works great. Admittedly it was touchy on X3.3.x and earlier X4.0.x, but I'm running with no issues at all right now with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Andy Ross
Jon S. Berndt wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Get a card with TL setup (i.e. a GeForce or a Radeon). FlightGear profits heaps from the TL setup. How? Presumably because most (all? I didn't check) of the geometry is stored in display lists. These can be stored on-card and eliminate the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) The runways at KEDW appear to have no texture - they are pure white. Hmmm, looks like no one ever created textures for 'dirt' runways. A couple/few of those are supposed to be concrete, I believe. Can someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross writes: Jon S. Berndt wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Get a card with TL setup (i.e. a GeForce or a Radeon). FlightGear profits heaps from the TL setup. How? Presumably because most (all? I didn't check) of the geometry is stored in display lists. These can be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread John Check
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a pretty large undertaking becuase whatever is done needs to be repeated for asphalt, concrete, and the occasional marked dirt runways. You need to take into account how the various pieces fit ... If anyone wants to take a look at this task, I'd be

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) -- Wednesday 06 February 2002 23:37: I also see a dirt runway texture, but it isn't being used at Edwards, at least. The runway definitions in Airport/default.apt.gz describe most of KEDW runways as NLVNN with the second letter standing for ... err nothing!

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 07 February 2002 00:09: My guess is that L stands for 'lake bed'. Maybe. My theory is nonsense, anyway. Had I started fgfs at KEDW before I sent that message, then I would have seen that there are no white runways at all. Everything looks OK here. m. ??

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Hmm. I did a full update this afternoon and I stil get white runways. Something wrong with the base package? Jon - Original Message - From: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:37 PM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits *

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autonomous helicopter

2002-02-06 Thread Ralph Jones
At 12:17 PM 2/6/2002 -0800, you wrote: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/robochopper.html Their ground station seems to have telemetry but no visualization ... They would seem to be a bit behind Georgia Tech: http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARCLaunchPoint.html rj

[Flightgear-devel] APR button for autopilot

2002-02-06 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi John, This file contains the xml and updated rgb for an APR button on the autopilot. It can be used to lock on to the glide slope on an ILS aproach: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/autopilot_with_apr.tar.gz As it stands now the NAV locks onto the NAV1 localizer and the APR locks on to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S. Berndt writes: Hmm. I did a full update this afternoon and I stil get white runways. Something wrong with the base package? You get white runways because those runways are expecting textures that don't exist and have never been created. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I'm confused. Then why did Melchior say he had no white runways at KEDW? Jon - Original Message - From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits Jon S. Berndt writes: Hmm. I did

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S. Berndt writes: I'm confused. Then why did Melchior say he had no white runways at KEDW? Could he be running an older version of the scenery files? Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL