Re: [Flightgear-users] Splash screen hangs

2004-12-22 Thread Francis X. Maier
I've had this same problem on my G5 Mac, but I don't have a clue how to address the issue. Fran On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:37 PM, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: It is an OpenAL issue: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php? az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=473mode=full Someone on the mailing list also

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
I don't think so; I've doublechecked my permissions. Fran On Dec 11, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Chris Tulloch wrote: This reminds me of file permissions problem... Chris Tulloch On Saturday 11 December 2004 12:30 pm, Francis X. Maier wrote: Last login: Sat Dec 11 10:21:44 on ttyp2 Welcome to Darwin

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
all that hard, but for someone with absolutely zero unix experience, you really have to spell out every keystroke in order.) Regards, Curt. Francis X. Maier wrote: I don't think so; I've doublechecked my permissions. Fran On Dec 11, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Chris Tulloch wrote: This reminds me of file

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
Using Mac OS X hack for initializing C++ stdio... And the first line in the Resource file reads: --fg-root=/Users/alfonsol/FlightGear0.9.6/data Al On Dec 12, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Francis X. Maier wrote: Agh! What's baffling me about this is I also have a Linux box where I successfully

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
Curt, But that doesn't explain this response: Last login: Sun Dec 12 08:58:04 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Suanns-Computer:~ franx2$ /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Using Mac OS X hack for initializing C++ stdio... Base package check failed ...

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
If it matters, my (invisible) .fgfsrc file is located in /Users/franx2. It is not located in /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6. Fran On Dec 12, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Alfonso J. Lebron-Berges wrote: Yes. And that is the way I have it Users/alfonsol/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
HOLY COW, that was it !!! Thanks Curt. It was the $ all along. Dohh. Many thanks! Fran On Dec 12, 2004, at 9:12 AM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Francis X. Maier wrote: Curt, But that doesn't explain this response: Last login: Sun Dec 12 08:58:04 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! /Users/franx2

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
Jim, I got it going based on exchanges with Curt earlier today on this list. In my case I had a $ in front of /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6 in my run_fgfs and Flight_Resource files. When I removed it, voila. Fran On Dec 12, 2004, at 10:07 AM, James Smeall wrote: I moved the FlightGear folder

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
On Dec 12, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Francis X. Maier wrote: Curt, But that doesn't explain this response: Last login: Sun Dec 12 08:58:04 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Suanns-Computer:~ franx2$ /Users/franx2/FlightGear0.9.6/fgfs; exit Using Mac OS X

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
Same here. I have a data folder with all the packages, and even a version file with the sole contents 0.9.6. Fran Fran On Dec 12, 2004, at 8:18 AM, Alfonso J. Lebron-Berges wrote: That is precisely what puzzles me. The DATA folder is in the same directory where fgfs is. And it contains all

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
, you really have to spell out every keystroke in order.) Regards, Curt. Francis X. Maier wrote: I don't think so; I've doublechecked my permissions. Fran On Dec 11, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Chris Tulloch wrote: This reminds me of file permissions problem... Chris Tulloch On Saturday 11 December 2004 12

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mac problem

2004-12-12 Thread Francis X. Maier
Al, You should have your invisible .fgfsrc file __not__ in your FlightGear0.9.6 folder, but outside it in your home directory. You might check that. You can download the freeware TinkerTool program that will reveal that for you. Fran On Dec 12, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Alfonso J. Lebron-Berges

[Flightgear-users] Re: Mac problem

2004-12-11 Thread Francis X. Maier
the cost. :-( Best, Fran On Dec 11, 2004, at 1:27 PM, James Smeall wrote: On Dec 11, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Francis X. Maier wrote: Jim, Yes, thanks, I've read them all. I dumped 0.9.4, installed 0.9.6 including OpenAL. I'm close, because I'm getting the same message you did before you figured

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear on mac 10.3.6?

2004-12-09 Thread Francis X. Maier
Jonathan and Jim, Thanks for this discussion. I'm in the same boat and followed this thread avidly. I'm going to apply this tomorrow. Grateful for the question and the patient response. Fran On Dec 9, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Jonathan Polley wrote: Jim, Since I am use to working in UNIX, it

[Flightgear-users] OSX

2004-12-08 Thread Francis X. Maier
Folks, I successfully installed FlightGear on my Linux box, but the hardware was too slow to run it well. So I'm trying FG on my G5 running OS 10.3.6. I follow the readme -- exactly, I think -- but I can't launch the sim. Can anyone direct me to a careful Mac installation step-by-step?