Anybody had any luck getting MS flight simulator running? I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on Intel and got to missing the Winders flight simulators after someone just gave me FS-X. It starts to install fine until it asks for the second DVD, which it never sees. When I click the Retry button, it keeps coming back with "Insert Disk #2." Any ideas? Thanks, Gerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080325/e7dbd355/attachment.htm
Thanks. I was trying to load FS-X, Deluxe Edition, which had the problem loading the second DVD. After browsing the WineHQ site for FS experiences, it doesn't look like anyone has gotten it running, but older versions started, at least. I pulled out my old FS98 version and tried loading it. It does install, (fron one CD,) and does start up like it did in Winders. However, as you start to taxi, it crashes and disappears. I'm going to try starting it from a terminal window to see if I can capture anything. Thanks, Gerry On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 19:48 -0700, David C Dawson wrote:> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:28:16PM -0500, Gerry Visel wrote: > > Anybody had any luck getting MS flight simulator running? I'm running > > Ubuntu 7.10 on Intel and got to missing > > the Winders flight simulators after someone just gave me FS-X. It starts to > > install fine until it asks for the second DVD, which it never sees. When I > > click the Retry button, it keeps coming back with "Insert Disk #2." > > > > Any ideas? > What version of Flight Simulator? What version of Wine? > I wonder if you un-mounted the first cd and then mounted the second? > Just a thought. > > A solution might consist of dd if=/dev/dvd of=/home/user/firstdsk.iso > ditto for the second cd and then you could mount both iso images like > this: > sudo mount -o loop,ro firstdsk.iso /dvd1 > sudo mount -o loop,ro seconddsk.iso /dvd2 > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Gerry
...When I try that, I get: fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil)) err:service:service_get_status service protocol error - failed to read pipe r = 0 count = 0! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x34d8e0,0x00000000), stub! Segmentation fault Of these, the first three lines come up as it is loading, with just the "Segmentation fault" occurring when it crashes. Thanks, Gerry On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 19:48 -0700, David C Dawson wrote:> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:28:16PM -0500, Gerry Visel wrote: > > Anybody had any luck getting MS flight simulator running? I'm > running > > Ubuntu 7.10 on Intel and got to missing > > the Winders flight simulators after someone just gave me FS-X. It > starts to > > install fine until it asks for the second DVD, which it never sees. > When I > > click the Retry button, it keeps coming back with "Insert Disk #2." > > > > Any ideas? > What version of Flight Simulator? What version of Wine? > I wonder if you un-mounted the first cd and then mounted the second? > Just a thought. > > A solution might consist of dd if=/dev/dvd of=/home/user/firstdsk.iso > ditto for the second cd and then you could mount both iso images like > this: > sudo mount -o loop,ro firstdsk.iso /dvd1 > sudo mount -o loop,ro seconddsk.iso /dvd2 > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Gerry > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080325/e7dbd355/attachment.htm >
An update on my attempts to fly again... Trying to install the newer MS Flight Simulator X resulted in a lockup when it asked for DVD disk 2. I had to eject the DVD tray with a wine eject command in a second window, and it would never recognize that disk 2 was inserted. Multiple tries got me no further, though it had installed a lot of files from disk 1. So I backed up a bit and dug out my old copy of FS98. It was contained wholly on one CD, which did install just fine. So far, so good. When I then tried to run it from the Wine menu, it would start up fine, with the engine running, and responding to controls. However, when I taxied very far or tried to take off, wine would crash. When I ran it from a terminal window where I could watch, with: env WINEPREFIX="/home/gerry/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files \Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\FltSim98.exe" I got this as it loaded: fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil)) fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d8e0,0x00000000), stub! and this when it crashed: Segmentation fault Anybody got any ideas on how to proceed? Is anybody else flying it? I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on an Intel box, without a Winders partition any more. Thanks, Gerry