On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:55, Eben King wrote:
> 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 want to have 3 display windows for a full cockpit view.
Richard Smoot
>
> > 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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