On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Richard Smoot wrote:
> Has anybody used the Flightgear flight sim in Linux?
Yes, but not very much, since I don't have a decent joystick and playing
with the keyboard sucks rocks.
> It is available in the synaptic package manager for Simply Mepis 6.5.00.
> In Linux or Unix it is possible to slave two computers to a master to generate
> the side cockpit window views. Has anybody done this?
No. Nifty. Can you use one fast one with a multi-headed video card?
> They are trying to get this working at the Sun N Fun workshops this week.
> Alex at Sun N Fun did have some old Unix experience but didn't know about
> current Linux. I did burn a copy of Simply Mepis 6.5.00 which got him started.
Hard to say how difficult it is since I don't have (a) FG installed any more
(though that can be fixed), (b) a decent joystick (though that's not
important for testing), or (c) another computer to act as the slave. Wish I
could be more help.
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