Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross wrote: > Probably most of you noticed last week that ATI has released a unified > linux driver package for all of their 8x00/9x00 cards. [...] Wohoo, you made it into /. with this article. I would not wonder if this boosts FlightGear popularity :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Andy Ross
Martin Spott wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Probably most of you noticed last week that ATI has released a unified > > linux driver package for all of their 8x00/9x00 cards. [...] > > Wohoo, you made it into /. with this article. I would not wonder if this > boosts FlightGear popularity :-) Yikes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jonathan Polley
I had to chuckle at the line "Through our various feedback mechanisms..." It's nice (?) to see that something like /. is considered a "feedback mechanism." ) On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:12 PM, Andy Ross wrote: Martin Spott wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Probably most of you noticed l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed assertion in ssg.h

2002-11-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Geoff Reidy writes: > I still have the "fgfs: ssg.h:302: void ssgBase::deRef(): Assertion > `refc > 0' failed." error with the random-objects disabled, just tried > with current cvs. Happens after about the same distance as with them > enabled. Strange, after many long flights ( > 3500 nm) I ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: > ** Linux vs. Windows (no! FreeDOS!). NVidia vs. ATI (no! Matrox!). > More than a few people called me an idiot. More than a few of > those hadn't bothered to read the link. Whee. That's very impressive for SlashDot. I wish that only a *few* people had called me

[Flightgear-devel] Newbie - MSVC Linking problem

2002-11-29 Thread MILLERM596
   I am new to FlightGear and have been trying to build it with MSVC 6.  I have Service Pack 5 installed.  I am able to build all libaries: plib, SimGear, etc..  I have the projects set for Debug Multithreaded DLL.    When I try to build FlightGear I receive the following linker errors:

[Flightgear-devel] ATI Linux Driver Update

2002-11-29 Thread Terry Makedon
Title: ATI Linux Driver Update Please use the following communication as you desire! Hi there,     Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These drivers were only loading up on "Built by ATI" cards. Through our various feedback mechanisms we have determined that there is a

[Flightgear-devel] forwarded message from Terry Makedon

2002-11-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy's very thorough posting on his experience with the latest ATI drivers has sent a few ripples through the geek community. Andy, I think you get the geek of the week award. :-) Anyway, here is a response from ATI which I am passing along to the list. It is great to see ATI making some headway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Ross) [2002.11.29 15:14]: > Martin Spott wrote: > > Andy Ross wrote: > > > Probably most of you noticed last week that ATI has released a unified > > > linux driver package for all of their 8x00/9x00 cards. [...] > > > > Wohoo, you made it into /. with this article. I wou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI vs. Linux

2002-11-29 Thread John Check
On Friday 29 November 2002 4:54 pm, David Megginson wrote: > Andy Ross writes: > > ** Linux vs. Windows (no! FreeDOS!). NVidia vs. ATI (no! Matrox!). > > More than a few people called me an idiot. More than a few of > > those hadn't bothered to read the link. Whee. > > That's very imp

[Flightgear-devel] New YASim stuff

2002-11-29 Thread Andy Ross
I had some time today to play with YASim stuff. New things in CVS: Fuel consumption has finally been implemented. It's pretty simplistic and doesn't support stuff like tank selection, engine-specific fuel feeds, inter-tank feeds (or fuel dumping), etc... But it seems to work. It probably also