Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Roberto Waltman wrote: > > > My long term interests are to build a multiple computer/multiple monitor > > system, (already have an X-Plane based system like that, want to try > > FlightGear) and to try to use/port/convert Microsoft's FS scener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Spott
Roberto Waltman wrote: > My long term interests are to build a multiple computer/multiple monitor > system, (already have an X-Plane based system like that, want to try > FlightGear) and to try to use/port/convert Microsoft's FS scenery with > FlightGear. (Megascenery in particular) Depending

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Spott
Geoff McLane wrote: > On a mapserver clone I can see 200, or even 300+ Kb/sec, > so this is what I use now... Thanks for this alternate... You're welcome . these wonderful ressources are not mine, I'm just maintaining the site ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-29 Thread Geoff McLane
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 21:29 -0500, Roberto Waltman wrote: > On 11/28/2010 06:36 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > > Did you check if the download really maxes out your DSL link ? > Yes. It did, but not all the time. I saw numbers ranging from 120 Kb/sec > (the maximum I ever get,) down to 35 Kb/sec. > Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-28 Thread Roberto Waltman
On 11/28/2010 06:36 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > Did you check if the download really maxes out your DSL link ? Yes. It did, but not all the time. I saw numbers ranging from 120 Kb/sec (the maximum I ever get,) down to 35 Kb/sec. -- Roberto Waltman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-28 Thread Martin Spott
Roberto Waltman wrote: > Another "inconvenience" was the time required to download fgdata. (Took > more than a day with my low-end DSL connection, all the time crossing > fingers for a power-glitch free session.) Did you check if the download really maxes out your DSL link ? Cheers, Ma

[Flightgear-devel] First time build

2010-11-28 Thread Roberto Waltman
A word of thanks and praise among the build problems posted periodically here. I just wanted to report that a first attempt to download and build FlightGear/SimGear/etc. following the instructions in the wiki went along without a hitch. Only (minor) problem was that the required package libun