Skydome scattering crashed Ubuntu?

[TrueNorthist]

Who is Brisa? I would be happy to contact him if it helps. I had an interesting development. I ran

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./download_and_compile.sh FGFS UPDATE

and the line I had added was removed from the launch script. FG returned to the same behaviour after the update but I edited the line JJTH suggested and it fixed her up good as new again.

[F-JJTH]

It's totally normal since the script rewrite the "run_fgfs.sh" each time you run the script.
To solve it I have a simple solution for you :
1) create a copy of "run_fgfs.sh" and name it "run_myfgfs.sh"
2) edit your new "run_myfgfs.sh" and add my previous hack into

Now you can run FG with ./run_myfgfs.sh
You can also update your FG installation without problem now.

Your problem is a local problem and not common problem. He is specific because he require to install a specific software (Bumblebee if I understood correctly) and for now I don't know if the script is destinated to deal with this particular problem.

Therefore I suggest to add your experience to the wiki page, let me know if my solution works fine and I will update it if you prefere. A new section "Info for Optimus users" should be perfect.

Cheers,
Clément

[TrueNorthist]

Thanks Clément. And while this may be an isolated problem right now it will soon be a lot more common as more and more optimus systems appear. What is nice about your solution is how simple it is. I like simple.

[F-JJTH]

TrueNorthist,

I've updated the wiki page of the script, can you let me know if it works as expected please : http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_Com ... technology

Thanks you

[TrueNorthist]

I had to reinstall Ubuntu because I do not yet know how to fix whatever breaks during a crash, so I also recompiled FG and reinstalled Bumblebee. Then I added the command:

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sed  's|./fgfs|optirun ./fgfs|' run_fgfs.sh > run_fgfs_optirun.sh && chmod +x run_fgfs_optirun.sh

in the terminal and launched FG. Then it crashed again... So it looks like the command at the wiki doesn't work yet. I will have to do another full reinstall of Ubuntu etc, but will only use:

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optirun ./fgfs --fg-root=$PWD/../fgdata/ $@

this time. I have been at this all day and need to take a bit of a break first and will post results later.

[Hooray]

deleting and reinstalling an OS like Linux is really not necessary, that's a bad habit from using Windows

[TrueNorthist]

I know, but I haven't figgered it out yet! BTW, I launched fgfs using

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optirun ./fgfs --fg-root=$PWD/../fgdata/ $@

It runs fine, even on the broken drive. Mind you, I am getting crash reports from apparmor and FG collapses after a while so I still need to fix it. I tried removing and reinstalling bumblebee but it persists. So far all that works is to reformat my root partition and reinstall Bumblebee etc. Behold!

I get those repeatedly after trying to launch FG without that magic script mod.

Edit: I found out who Brisa is! He done wrote the wiki. Every day, in every way, I am getting smaaaaaaaaaarter.

[TrueNorthist]

One further question if I may... Because I have an Intel/Nvidia optimus chipset I am unable to use a launcher as I must use the modified optirun script. I read through all the FGCom pages at the wiki and see that it needs to be configured using a launcher. Does anyone know another way to run FG and FGCom solely through terminal?

[Philosopher]

Would the "show commandline" thingymajiger in FGRun help you? Or are you asking about commandline options for FGCom itself (sorry, I don't use it and don't know if it actually takes/needs options). Brisa is also here on the forums, do a member search .