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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
