BTW, your post made it the first time. I was hoping someone more
knowledgable would answer your questions, but I guess you're stuck with
me! ;-p
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.07.25 21:32]:
> ..the first time I had FG-0.7.8 (w/ plib 1.4.1 and SimGear 0.0.16)
> up and running, X v4.0.3 ran away with about 97% cpu.
> FG appeared rock solid at 7 frames per minute in its window.
> As the same thing happened on my first FElt compile,
> I threw out X v4.0.3 in favor of X v4.1.0, and rebuilt FG accordingly.
> Since then, ./runfgfs dies "Cannot locate FG root directory (data)".
Did you recompile plib, simgear, and flightgear?
> ..'runfgfs, and preferences.xml was hand copied from
> /usr/local/source/FlightGear-0.7.8/src/Main. Makefile bug?
>
> [arnt@Lena FlightGear]$ ./runfgfs
> Cannot locate FG root directory (data)
I would suggest doing a fresh plib, simgear, and flightgear install
*without* messing with runfgfs and preferences.xml.
> [arnt@Lena FlightGear]$ ./bin/fgfs
>
> Electric Fence 2.2.0 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> FlightGear: Version 0.7.8
>
> Scanning for root: command line
> fg_root = /usr/local/FlightGear/lib/FlightGear
> Reading global preferences
> Reading properties from
> /usr/local/FlightGear/lib/FlightGear/preferences.xml
> Error reading property list from file
> /usr/local/FlightGear/lib/FlightGear/pref
> erences.xml
> Failed to read global preferences from
> /usr/local/FlightGear/lib/FlightGear/pre
> ferences.xml
> Processing command line arguments
> Opening a window: 800x600
> Mesa GLX Indirect
> Max texture size = 2048
> Depth buffer bits = 16
> FATAL: ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context.
>
> ..ok, what do I do now?
I'm not sure how this should be fixed, but there is a post by a user
about how he fixed this. I think he basically had a GL lib conflict
that he had to work around. See:
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/11854/125/6095982/
Thanks
--
Cameron Moore
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