[Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-08 Thread Curtis Olson
To continue the tradition of posting first flight reports, please let me post my little story from this evening. For the past year and a half I have been helping the U of MN aero department periodically with a couple UAV projects. I've really enjoyed helping them out, and enjoyed interfacing and

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] jpg-httpd broken pipe handling

2007-06-08 Thread Pigeon
Hi, The problem was if a client connects and closes the connection for whatever reason while the jpg-httpd is sending the image (e.g. web browser refreshes when loading the first image), a SIGPIPE will be raised which isn't handled and causes FG to simply exits. The attached fix calls se

[Flightgear-devel] groundspeed patches...

2007-06-08 Thread syd & sandy
Here are the patches to display groundspeed in knots in /velocities... Please let me know if they are can be included in the source Although the plib and osg version of these files are identical , I've created a patch for each in case of line offsets... I'm not to familiar with diffs yet. Tha

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: FGLive LinuxTag 2007]

2007-06-08 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Original-Nachricht Betreff:Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007 Datum: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:57:33 +0200 Von:Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: FlightGear developers discussions Referenzen: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pigeon schrieb: > Since this u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Pigeon schrieb: > Since this updated version is mainly an FG update, hopefully I > haven't broken anything with the live CD itself. Though I only managed > to test it once on one machine. For those who has the time and > bandwidth, feel free to try it and blame me for everything :) > > Hi Pi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Csaba Halász
On 6/8/07, Holger Wirtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me know if you have an idea how to fix that. Currently I am thinking about using a debug glibc to see exactly what triggers the trap, and then use gdb watchpoint to find the cause. -- Csaba --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Holger Wirtz
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Csaba Halász wrote: > On 6/8/07, Holger Wirtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I have problems with FG > > (glibc free error... but this is another story). > > Oh, me too. I also have an ATI card (fglrx 8.37.6), xorg 7.2, athlon64 > and osg version o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Csaba Halász
On 6/8/07, Holger Wirtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I have problems with FG > (glibc free error... but this is another story). Oh, me too. I also have an ATI card (fglrx 8.37.6), xorg 7.2, athlon64 and osg version of FG. For backtrace look here: http://pastebin.ca/531672 Do you see somethin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
I did know JavaFoil but it seemed to me that is only based on NACA airfoils. Nethertheless a good chance to get the airfoil. Thanks for your help - javaFoil is easy to use HHS --- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Heiko Schulz wrote: > > > O.k. this few centimetres must be enough - may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: > O.k. this few centimetres must be enough - maybe XFoil > is a good possibility . My recommendation would have been Martin Hepperle and his nice toolbox of Java airfoil/prop analysis utilities. http://www.mh-aerotools.de/ If you _really_ need further advice after using hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
I know - Stuttgart is the nearest one. And there is a large library of the DLR. O.k. this few centimetres must be enough - maybe XFoil is a good possibility . Thanks in advance HHS --- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Heiko Schulz wrote: > > --- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > well, the university that has a wind tunnel and is considerable close > to your place should be Stuttgart. They have a pretty good reputation > for doing wind tunnel tests with airfoils in model-aircraft size. "IAG - Institut f?r Aerodynamik und Gasdynamik", Martin.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: > --- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I promised to Matthias to bring a piece of an airfoil of the C2 this > > summer. I'll see if I manage to get one of the 135as well, > Eh...Ok. > Can you say me where I can rent a wind tunnel? ;-) Ask the people at the aerosp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
Eh...Ok. Can you say me where I can rent a wind tunnel? ;-) HHS --- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Heiko Schulz wrote: > > > The perfomance datas are known ( no matters that > there > > are not quite the real one) - > > but we need datas of the airfoil, datas max. > > collective an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: > The perfomance datas are known ( no matters that there > are not quite the real one) - > but we need datas of the airfoil, datas max. > collective and pitch and so one I promised to Matthias to bring a piece of an airfoil of the C2 this summer. I'll see if I manage to ge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-08 Thread gh.robin
On Fri 8 June 2007 00:53, Martin Spott wrote: > Heiko Schulz wrote: > > In the last days I improved much the model of the > > ec135 for FlightGear. What really remains is the > > dynmic flight model. Maik and > > me are still looking for some datas. > > I've been talking to a distant friend who wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Holger Wirtz
> > :00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corproration Mobile Integrated > > Graphics Controller (rev 03) > > lspci -n would be useful too :) Args... the temperature is >20 degrees, so my single CPU (type BRAIN+) seems to drop tasks randomly... 000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03) Regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Pigeon
> I just booted and tried to start X.org... then I get a fatal error: > (EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0) > It seems that there is no synaptics driver on the CD (find does not find > anyone). Ok, noted. Thanks. > No they won't work. I had to setup my own: > htt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive LinuxTag 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Holger Wirtz
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:46:02PM +1000, Pigeon wrote: > > Just reporting that the CD doesn't run on a IBM Thinkpad T60 because of > > some trouble with a nonexistent "synaptics" driver for X11. > > Hmm, I have tested it on a laptop which has a touchpad/synaptics. > And the touchpad worked. H

Re: [Flightgear-devel] groundspeed property ...

2007-06-08 Thread syd & sandy
Thanks for the replies , I've tested the property with the PLIB version and it works as expected there too ... I'll create the patches and submit them for scrutiny tomorrow ... Night all. > Cheers, > Syd > > -- > syd & sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -