Alex Perry writes: > From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And the open source drivers don't support some of the newer ATI cards. > > Sorry, why do you buy cards that are not supported by OpenSource > > drivers ? You are developing OpenSource software, why don't you take > > care of that. I can't accept this as a valid argument. > > I do look out for drivers _before_ I buy a card for my or my customers' > > PeeCee (currently I don't even own a PC ;-) > > There is little point making a Linux based LiveCD of FGFS, if it can only be > used on specific computers that a knowledgable person has already checked. > With that constraint, we might as well either > (a) do a full manual install of Linux with the driver downloading, or > (b) use the Windows version of FGFS and set the CDROM up for AutoRun. > Remember, the idea of the LiveCD was that people could use it at home. > > >From the pragmatic point of view, if (b) is the right way to go, I've got > no objections to making the script up on a Linux machine then burning a > copy of the standard AutoRun FGFS image with the new script file inserted. > I won't be able to _use_ the CDROM myself, but I can still hand it out ...
Alex, For what it's worth, the cd distribution I've assembled has a ready to run copy of windows flightgear on it. Just pop in the cd, double click on the runfgfs.bat file and you are up and running. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
