MS Flight Simulator?

Gerry Visel · Post by **Gerry Visel** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:28 pm

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
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Gerry Visel · Post by **Gerry Visel** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:21 pm

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

Gerry Visel · Post by **Gerry Visel** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:28 pm

...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
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Gerry Visel · Post by **Gerry Visel** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:07 pm

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

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:51 am

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Gerry Visel <[email protected]> wrote:

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

I don't think this app has ever worked well, FWIW.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ngId=20357