[clug] X-Plane under Linux

[Robert Edwards]

On 25/10/11 04:41, Peter VK1PE wrote:
> Okay, I've had some movement on this; I've looked up and followed the
> official advice (wiki.x-plane.org) again, and I've got the installer to
> run under bash, but get the message ""Whoah -- No matter how hard I
> tried, I failed to get a GLX visual. Something's seriously wonky on your
> machine."
>
> I have OpenGL and OpenAL on my dual Kubuntu/Ubuntu 11.10 lappy.
>
> Hmmmm.... :-(
>
> Too late/early to think straight...
>
> Thoughts, please?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

With GLX problems and recent Ubuntu's, I always look at compiz first.
Try disabling it in System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects
and see if that helps.

Bob Edwards.

>
> On 25/10/11 04:04, Peter VK1PE wrote:
>> Another one....
>>
>> I used to use the flight control software X-Plane when my machine also
>> had Windoze; but I've been unable to get the prescribed/sanctioned
>> Linux installer to work. It's a program called
>> "X-Plane_Installer_123_DVD_Linux", and I've made it executable, and it
>> appears in the file manager (Dolphin) as executable, but no amount of
>> trying seems to get it to execute.
>>
>> Any suggestions, please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>