[Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Harry Campigli
Hello all, I would like to set up a networked slave in the normal manner, however I only want it to display some instruments on a panel of my design in an osg view. For this I would like to use an Intel atom board which is a pretty feeble MB but suits because its small, and low power use. These

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Harry Campigli wrote: Hello all, I would like to set up a networked slave in the normal manner, however I only want it to display some instruments on a panel of my design in an osg view. For this I would like to use an Intel atom board which is a pretty feeble MB but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Anders Gidenstam wrote: My suggestion is that you find or write an application that displays just instruments. You can easily get the relevant data needed to drive the display out of FG using the generic protocol system. That way you don't need to change FlightGear at all. I suspect that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Harry Campigli
Hi Anders, thanks for the response. Well I am a hardware man, absolutely no programmer, but I have managed some C in microchip pic for my sim hardware (mostly modified scraped avionics and panels) and written up a IO driver for it in FG, so for me, starting from scratch is not an option, I do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hello all, Hi! Firstly has someone done this before? More or less - yes. I use a simple PC for driving two monitors with 2d panels fed by a separate FlightGear computer running the FDM et. al. The general description is here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building minimal fg for only for a slaved instrument panel

2010-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 18 May 2010 15:29:54 +0800, Harry wrote in message aanlktikmptlauqiudmdpsmwvwjmn0hg5ho6cyqbkm...@mail.gmail.com: For this I would like to use an Intel atom board ..which one? which is a pretty feeble MB but suits because its small, and low power use. Firstly has someone done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] professinal/educational uses of FlightGear...

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Morgan
The page I would like to spawn off in a subdomain as projects.flightgear.org is here http://flightgear.daffodil.uk.com/www.php?section=linkspage=projects But those are external projects, and I would propose that the projects is a dedicated site, where porject managers can update, or indeed