Re: FlightGear Version 0.7.8

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@flightgear.org>]

Richard Lemieux writes:
> I have been updating FlightGear from CVS about three times during
> the last months and the program always dies after showing the Cessna
> cockpit.  I am generally using the latest stable release of Linux
> and of the required software libs.  FlightGear compile and install
> without complains.

Richard,

You might try running inside of gdb to get some more info about where
in the code you crash.  We have a mailing lists which I'd encourage
you to post to if you continue to have problems:

    http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html

Make sure you include the gdb output, linux distribution, compiler
version, glibc version, and any other info you might think would be
helpful.

> So I am a little puzzled.  Do you know of an up-to-date FAQ?

Our most recent FAQ is here:

    http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FlightGear-FAQ.html

> I use an ATI Rage Fury 128 and I have the hardware accelerated
> OpenGL installed and working.  Maybe there is an already compiled
> and ready to run copy available somewhere.

You could be running into driver issues???  How much video/texture ram
do you have on your card?  I know that people generally have had good
luck with GeForce cards, and fairly good luck with voodoo2/3 cards
(although they are not as nice as the geforce cards.)  I don't know of
many people running ATI cards, and I've never had one here to try out
myself.

Regards,

Curt.
-- 
Curtis Olson   Human Factors Research Lab       FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    curt@hfrl.umn.edu                curt@flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org
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