Re: [Flightgear-users] USB CH Flight Controls not recognized

2006-02-17 Thread Dick Murphy
hi Folks, Lessons-learned posting for my problem...Posting starts here: Back again...same problem, different day. Installed MEPIS 3.3-4 and FlightGear 9.9.1, thinking the newer MEPIS would do a better job recognizing USB yoke and pedals. Not so. [I sent] "Now, I need newbie help. Short crypt

RE: [Flightgear-users] Unpacking extra scenery and aircraft files

2006-02-17 Thread dene maxwell
Much the same for aircraft \Data\Aircraft Extract using embedded paths to above directory might pay to check the embedded folders in the archive before extracting to make sure nothing is going to get dumped in the \Data\Aircraft directory. If it looks like it is create a directory for the parti

RE: [Flightgear-users] Unpacking extra scenery and aircraft files

2006-02-17 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Peter, Once you've downloaded the scenery file; - Create a directory in the FG \data directory - Open the archive (*.gz file) - Extract to the \Data\Scenery make sure you use the embedded folder structure or you'll end up with everything in the \Data\Scenery directory and finally the most im

[Flightgear-users] Unpacking extra scenery and aircraft files

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Weaver
Sorry people, don't know how to carry out the above operation. Will some kind soul give me some step-by-step instructions, please?  

[Flightgear-users] Re: Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mike Rawlins -- Friday 17 February 2006 20:10: > cvs -d > :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 > co data > > Was that a mistake? No. You logged in once, and until you log out you can access the server. And you don't really need to log out. Most people don't (I claim). > Second,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Rawlins
--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like it died somewhere in the joystick config > loading code. If > you have a joystick, try unplugging it and see if > you can start up ok. > If that doesn't help, perhaps you have some sort of > corruption in your > base package direct

[Flightgear-users] Re: Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mike Rawlins -- Friday 17 February 2006 16:39: > #6 0x0852ee27 in readXML ([EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > at easyxml.cxx:268 > #7 0x0851b77a in readProperties ([EMAIL PROTECTED], > start_node=0x0, > default_mode=0) at props_io.cxx:327 > #8 0x0832a30b in FGInput::_scan_joysti

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Looks like it died somewhere in the joystick config loading code. If you have a joystick, try unplugging it and see if you can start up ok. If that doesn't help, perhaps you have some sort of corruption in your base package directory or files, you might want to refetch or reinstall the base p

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Rawlins
--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rawlins wrote: > The next thing to try would be to run FG from inside > gdb and get a > backtrace: Yikes! Maybe there's a clue in here? Thanks Curt -Mike (gdb) where #0 0x006e57a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1 0x007

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Mike Rawlins wrote: Yes, I've always run as root and never had an issue. And I'd be more than happy to ignore the message if I didn't see the word "Aborted" with a subsequent crash of the FG window. Probably shouldn't install/compile CVS and try instead from rpms. The next thing to try wou

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Rawlins
--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rawlins wrote: > > > > > > >Yes, I did have a typo. The original issue I wrote > >about yesterday persists: > > > >Error reading properties: > >Failed to open file > > at /root/.fgfs/autosave.xml > > (reported by SimGear XML Parser) > > > >

[Flightgear-users] Re: Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mike Rawlins -- Friday 17 February 2006 15:34: > The original issue I wrote about yesterday persists: > > Error reading properties: > Failed to open file > at /root/.fgfs/autosave.xml > (reported by SimGear XML Parser) Looks like I'm talking to walls: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 17 February 2

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Mike Rawlins wrote: Yes, I did have a typo. The original issue I wrote about yesterday persists: Error reading properties: Failed to open file at /root/.fgfs/autosave.xml (reported by SimGear XML Parser) I specified no options during simgear configure. Is it possible that it's looking in /r

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Rawlins
--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Rawlins wrote: > > >Just installed v0.9.9 from CVS. Base package data > was > >installed to usr/local/Flightgear/data/, and > $FG_ROOT > >set to that path. Configure, make, make install > >produced no obvious errors. Although file > >FG_RO

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Mike Rawlins wrote: Just installed v0.9.9 from CVS. Base package data was installed to usr/local/Flightgear/data/, and $FG_ROOT set to that path. Configure, make, make install produced no obvious errors. Although file FG_ROOT/version shows 0.9.9, running fgfs gives: Base package check failed .

[Flightgear-users] Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Rawlins
Just installed v0.9.9 from CVS. Base package data was installed to usr/local/Flightgear/data/, and $FG_ROOT set to that path. Configure, make, make install produced no obvious errors. Although file FG_ROOT/version shows 0.9.9, running fgfs gives: Base package check failed ... Found version [none