Hi Arnt:
I received your advise today. I'll let you know if anything good results from
it.
Take care
Tim
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> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 02:03:06 +0200
> From: a...@c2i.net
> To: flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear Problems
>
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:36:17 -0400, Tim wrote in message
> <col113-w20e86a58256ba55360491bbf...@phx.gbl>:
>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > My name Tim:
> >
> > I'm running Window7 Home Premium.
>
> ..hum. Microsoft has an history of resorting even to
> litigation, to try stall their competition.
>
> > I have a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with an i5CPU 64 bit - 16Gigs of DDR3
> > RAM - an ATI Radeon 5450 Video Graphics Card.
>
> ..this hardware should run at least 8 times quicker than mine.
>
> > I have, for about a month now, been trying various ways to get Flight
> > Gear 2.0-64Bit to show me nice terrain, Airports that are Marked and
> > Gray in color instead of being black or green or brown, and Aircraft
> > that shows instrumentation instead of vague shadows.
>
> ..you see anything like these?:
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Debians-fg-2.0.0-2
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Debians-fg-2.0.0-3
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/737-100
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/ATI-nite_warriors
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/c172p
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/nite_warriors
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/shadyshadows-n-c
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/smoke-sheen
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/sopwith
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/Cub
> https://github.com/gasguru/flightgearthings/tree/master/a26+iar80
>
> ..we have a few shader bugs, both with ATI and Nvidia hw:
> http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=264
> http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=262
>
> ..as you see from my screen shot pile, some bugs are getting fixed.
>
> > Thinking it might be my ATI Radeon 5450 Video Graphics Card, I
> > downloaded another Flight Simulator to check my Card out. I tried the
> > XPlane Demo and was instantly impressed. Excellent Terrain - Marked &
> > Gray Colored Runways - Detailed Instrumentation for the Aircraft. I
> > loved it so much - I bought it and plan to buy The
> > Yoke/Throttle/Pedals in the near future.
> >
> > I still wish I could get FlightGear to co-operate. Unfortunately, I'm
> > out of ideas.
>
> ..first I'd like you to try http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html,
> you want the latest version, cd, dvd or on an usb, and you boot it
> with "knoppix64 toram " to run it from ram disk. Once it's up, open
> a xterm (command line interface window) from the menu, in that, become
> root with "sudo su - ", there was no passwd last time I did this.
>
> ..then you install FG onto the ram disk with:
> "aptitude update ;aptitude install flightgear ;aptitude clean ;exit ",
> then fire it up and compare.
>
>
> ..parallel to the released version, you can also install FG-git from:
> http://www.gitorious.org/fg/fgmeta/blobs/raw/master/download_and_compile.sh
> and run it as knoppix in /home/knoppix/FG-git with e.g.:
> "./download_and_compile.sh -s -a y -p y -c y -d y -r y -j8 ALL ",
> you have 4 cpu cores that can do 2 "HyperThreads" per core.
>
> ..otherwise just follow the cookbook recipes at:
> http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu
> or http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Building_FlightGear_-_Linux
>
> ..with FG-git you may want to keep the 10GB of aircraft etc data
> on disk or an usb-stick, to speed up your next compile, fun part
> is, you _can_ do it all on "just" 16GB of ramdisk. 8o)
>
> ..FG-git also works on Wintendo7, but Microsoft tools suck,
> I hear, my last Wintendo was W95. ;o)
>
> --
> ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
> ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
> Scenarios always come in sets of three:
> best case, worst case, and just in case.
>
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