Noticed that X-Plane is now shipping a Linux version along with their
Windows version. Anyone running Linux?

Omega wrote:
> Noticed that X-Plane is now shipping a Linux version along with their
> Windows version. Anyone running Linux?
>
Running Slackware 10.0 here, and have noticed virtually no difference
between the Windoze and Linux-native versions. The only thing is you
need a good 3D-accelerator video card (either Geforce or ATI) with the
Linux driver from their respective websites. I use the Geforce (FX5200
with 256meg RAM), and their Linux support is top notch. Heard nothing
but HORROR stories about ATI's Linux support....

One last thing to keep in mind: with the Linux version, you need to
install it in your /home/yourusername directory, or you will need to run
it with root access if you install it in /usr/local.

Hope this helps...

Lenard Spencer wrote:
> Omega wrote:
>
>> Noticed that X-Plane is now shipping a Linux version along with their
>> Windows version. Anyone running Linux?
>>
> Running Slackware 10.0 here, and have noticed virtually no difference
> between the Windoze and Linux-native versions. The only thing is you
> need a good 3D-accelerator video card (either Geforce or ATI) with the
> Linux driver from their respective websites. I use the Geforce (FX5200
> with 256meg RAM), and their Linux support is top notch. Heard nothing
> but HORROR stories about ATI's Linux support....
I have ATI radeon with 32MB vram - keep away from it, buy nvidia.
ATI's drivers are crap, fglrx segfaults (the new version as well).
If you have no choice then try radeon open source driver, it works for
me, but performance is a bit worse (it slows down when smoke is
rendered, but everything else is fine).

> One last thing to keep in mind: with the Linux version, you need to
> install it in your /home/yourusername directory, or you will need to run
> it with root access if you install it in /usr/local.
You can always change dir's owner as I did, no big difference anyway.

To summarize I can tell linux version is as good as for windows, except
for crap service from ati. Maybe it'll change some day, but sooner I'll
change my video card...

Regards,
Lukasz Wojtow

ps. Anyone noticed strange joystick buttons behavior in 8.04?