Games : 'FlightGear' hangs ! :o(

[Eric Dunbar]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:36:50 +0100, Trouilliez Vincent
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  2) no sound : I get an error message saying it could not start the sound
> server. A bit strange, as sound/music works perfectly well on my machine.
> :o(
>  It says exactly : " Failed to initialize sound server : unable to connect
> to sound server at: 127.0.0.1:9433, use 'starty' command to start the
> server".
>  
>  What the hell is that ? It needs to connect to internet to get the sound
> working ? What does that mean ??? I tried typing 'starty' in a terminal, but
> the command doesn't exist.
>  Ran a search for a file of that name, but none exist.

It's part of a sound server that that app is looking for (that's
supposed to be running on your machine, 127.0.0.1 is localhost is your
own computer... 127.0.0.1:xxxxx (port number... :80 is HTTP for e.g.)
is how a lot of services function on your computer, e.g. CUPS
printing). Check out <http://wolfpack.twu.net/YIFF/download.html>.

Eric.