Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help ! on a Run-Time Error !

2006-02-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Isao, here are the relevant part of the error message : Isao Yamashita wrote : > freeglut (./fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for > window 'FlightGear' > This may hurt performance. > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". You need to install a hardware-acce

[Flightgear-devel] New South Germany Scenery release

2006-02-11 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Dear all, today the South Germany Scenery team released a new version of its custom scenery with the following major new features: - new scenery areas: Zürich, Stuttgart and surrounding - reduced triangle count - custom Atlas maps For more information, see our news release at http://www.custom-

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help ! on a Run-Time Error !

2006-02-11 Thread dene maxwell
Hi, I'm really out of my depth here, but I think you might have to avoid any updates in the last few weeks... that is... find the last CVS submission that does compile OK then work forward one step at a time. At least until about 10:00 utc when the European developers get out of bed on a sunday

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help ! on a Run-Time Error !

2006-02-11 Thread Isao Yamashita
I appreciate your very quick response, but it didn't help. autosave.xml wasn't created at all, so I copied it out of preference.xml, and put both in ~/.fgfs directory. Now I got a bit different error as follows : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./fgfs --fg-root=/home/knoppix/FlightGear-0.9.9 Failed to set ali

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help ! on a Run-Time Error !

2006-02-11 Thread dene maxwell
Hi, This time of day is a bit of a dead time for developers...but i'll do my best ...I remember a post earlier in the weekend about an update that involved autosave.xml and preferences.xml the preceding thread was about having FG modify user preferences with reference to the user hence a m

[Flightgear-devel] Help ! on a Run-Time Error !

2006-02-11 Thread Isao Yamashita
After a couple of hours of struggling, I managed to compile Flight Gear CVS with all the necessary components. Yet it crashes after the splash screen with the following messages on my terminal screen : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./fgfs --fg-root=/home/knoppix/FlightGear-0.9.9 Error reading properties: Fai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...

2006-02-11 Thread dene maxwell
I'll volunteer, but not as a rear gunner in a Lancaster reckon I could manage a navigators job. =Dene From: Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...

2006-02-11 Thread Josh Babcock
Georg Vollnhals wrote: > Lee Elliott schrieb: > >> Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the >> shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, while >> doing some logical toppling: wouldn't it be fun in multi-player if >> there was a mode where instead of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...

2006-02-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Lee Elliott schrieb: Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, while doing some logical toppling: wouldn't it be fun in multi-player if there was a mode where instead of one player to one aircraft we could

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...

2006-02-11 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in > the shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, You need a vacation, man. ;- Jon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through

[Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...

2006-02-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, while doing some logical toppling: wouldn't it be fun in multi-player if there was a mode where instead of one player to one aircraft we could have many people to o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list

2006-02-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:33:17 +, Justin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would it really be that much of a problem to code to make FG accept an > option like --dual-head= ( numerical value in pixels ) > > Which would tell FG to redraw the last half of the screen ( no pixels > from ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list

2006-02-11 Thread Justin Smithies
Would it really be that much of a problem to code to make FG accept an option like --dual-head= ( numerical value in pixels ) Which would tell FG to redraw the last half of the screen ( no pixels from halfway in ) on the next half of the screen. This would fix the display issue and it would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Detlef Faber - links for FW190 question Bf109

2006-02-11 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Samstag, den 11.02.2006, 16:56 +0100 schrieb Georg Vollnhals: > Detlef Faber schrieb: > > Hello Georg, > > > > .. deleted > > Thank you Detlef, > > for your long and very detailled explanations and the spare-time you > gave me. > Now as I know that it can be done it is up to me to increase

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list

2006-02-11 Thread Andy Ross
Justin Smithies wrote: > I would like an option to be added to the FG command line that would > remove so much of the screen on the right so where my two monitors > join its like having the window strut seperators. You'd be better off just running a separate FlightGear instance on the second monit

[Flightgear-devel] A/C Tractors 3D Models

2006-02-11 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi people, in case you like populating ground airport traffic with vehicles I made two tractors in .ac format. They are a FMC B-1200 and a KAMAG TowBear_TT. They're free, I release them under GPL license :-) Sorry, they're not very low-poly :-) http://www.geocities.com/robitabu/3dmodels/T

[Flightgear-devel] literature

2006-02-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
To increase list traffic on this boring day, here are a few links to pages where people discuss fgfs: http://digg.com/software/Awesome_Free_Flight_Sim Eternal discussion with a few new entries: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16997 http://happypenguin.org/show?Flight%20Gear%20Flight

[Flightgear-devel] wish list

2006-02-11 Thread Justin Smithies
For dualhead displays i feel or rather need this feature adding. My two screens are setup as one virtual screen over 2048*768. ( 2 x 1024*768 ) ( Running Linux , nvidia 5200 dual head )) I would like an option to be added to the FG command line that would remove so much of the screen on the righ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Detlef Faber - links for FW190 question Bf109

2006-02-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Detlef Faber schrieb: Hello Georg, .. deleted Thank you Detlef, for your long and very detailled explanations and the spare-time you gave me. Now as I know that it can be done it is up to me to increase my flying skills. I searched a big empty plane grass-plate for my flight tests - what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Detlef Faber - links for FW190 question Bf109

2006-02-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Yeah - that's interesting background info that would be useful to include in a readme or something. That's if you haven't already done so:) LeeE --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Detlef Faber - links for FW190 question Bf109

2006-02-11 Thread Josh Babcock
Detlef Faber wrote: > Hello Georg, > > thanks for the data, thats alot of stuff to work through, but very > interesting. That should be sufficient to make a fdm of. > >>2. Bf 109 >> >>First, I am *not* an experienced pilot regarding such overpowered single >>engine aircraft. But I know all about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Detlef Faber - links for FW190 question Bf109

2006-02-11 Thread Detlef Faber
Hello Georg, thanks for the data, thats alot of stuff to work through, but very interesting. That should be sufficient to make a fdm of. > 2. Bf 109 > > First, I am *not* an experienced pilot regarding such overpowered single > engine aircraft. But I know all about possible "bad" effects such as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [0.9.9] screenshots for flightgear.org

2006-02-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
There is a world outside San Francisco : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-bo-defense-1.jpg http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-bo-defense-2.jpg http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-bo-defense-3.jpg http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-bo-defense-4.jpg http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Saturday 11 February 2006 14:36: > Now that the Festival support has been added, could you update the code > to use that instead of the prerecorded sound files? > After that I would like add it to CVS. Hmm ... but then it requires festival to work correctly, which I think isn't a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi Jean-Yves, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: Hi, I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, available at http://people.freebsd.org/~jylefort/mk-viii.tgz The MK VIII is an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System aimed at regional turboprop and small turbofan aircrafts such

[Flightgear-devel] network issues

2006-02-11 Thread Justin Smithies
I cant seem to get my FG to send anything over the network or even to its own loopback address. I'm using the current cvs updated daily. The line is --native=socket,out,30,192.168.0.2,5500,udp I've tried using tcp and udp , ive tried the opengc but i still get error writing data. Ive tried dif

[Flightgear-devel] Linux nvidia twinview

2006-02-11 Thread Justin Smithies
Guys i need some tips please. I've got twin view setup using 2 identical monitors @ 1024*768 giving me an effective 2048*768 display. The only problem i have is that where the monitors meet i need to add some dead space so the FG cockpit display looks right because at the moment when say a contr

[Flightgear-devel] user 'preferences.xml' renamed to 'autosave.xml'!

2006-02-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior Franz -- Saturday 11 February 2006 12:51: > Modified Files: > fg_commands.cxx fg_init.cxx > Log Message: > rename user `preferences.xml' to `autosave.xml'. The former name lead to > problems because a lot of people already have their *real* preferences > set in ~/.fgfs/preferences

[Flightgear-devel] Tutorial system patch

2006-02-11 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Hi All, A new patch for a tutorial system is now available from http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/tutorial3.tar.gz. It is a complete replacement for the previous tutorial patches I have posted. The patch provides - A fix to the presets code so JSBSim aircraft have their engines running when sta