Christian Mayer wrote:

> I'm one of the victims, too.
> 
> Starting FGFS under Windows XP on my laptop results in the lines:
> 
> ...
> Loading sound information for: squeal
>  From file sounds sample = F:/Programme/FlightGear/data/Sounds/squeal.wav
> Loading sound information for: flaps
>  From file sounds sample = F:/Programme/FlightGear/data/Sounds/flaps.wav
> Fatal error: Failed to gen source.
>   (received from )
> Deleting a sample
> Deleting a sample
> Deleting a sample
> Deleting a sample
> ...
... snip ...

> > FGFS 0.9.6 starts and runs without weird procedures so far as I am aware
> > (or, to put it another way: it works for me) under both Cygwin and
> Windows
> > xp sp2.If it doesn't, then either:
> >
> > a. it hasn't been installed correctly.
> 
> I used the 0.9.6 Windows installer that is provied on the homepage.

That should be OK then, but you might consider downloading the very latest
version from here:

ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgfs-0.9.6-20041010.zip

> 
> > b. the system has some incompatibility.
> 
> Maybe - but then FGFS isn't multiplatform anymore. And an Acer
> Travelmate 800 is a real mainstream laptop so we can't say that it is
> incompatible...

Multi-platform means Linux/Cygwin/Windows not Acer/Dell/HP.

> > I would first suspect video card driver compatibility with OpenGL or
> sound
> > card with OpenAl.
> 
> I suspect OpenAL. But as I've never worked with OpenAL (is that still
> under active development?) 

Yes

> and I haven't compiled FGFS for a long time I
> can't really help to figure out the problem :(
> 

So how about checking/updating your sound card driver? At least that problem
could be eliminated. The error message described above would seem to point
in that direction. 

FWIW, my system is a Bitsa: bits I had to hand, and some bits I bought. If
FGFS runs on that lot, I reckon it should run on anything.

HTH

Regards,

Vivian




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