fgfs

[John Dangler]

I found flightgear on synaptic this afternoon and decided to try it.  I
installed it and the dependencies for it, but on executing it in Gnome,
after the splash banner appeared, nothing else happened.  I went to a
terminal window and entered the command to start it (/usr/games/fgfs),
and got this for output...

freeglut (/usr/games/fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering
for window 'FlightGear'
This may hurt performance.
opening file: /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Navaids/carrier_nav.dat
/usr/share/games/FlightGear/Navaids/TACAN_freq.dat
fgfs: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer:
Assertion `a != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted

Anyone know why this would abort?  Is the version in synaptic the
culprit?  Is it the video card I'm using? (0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible
controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3) )

Thanks for any input...