kbowler

Hi Thank you for your reply. I am surprised you think I have a yoke problem. I use Linda v1.13 with my FSX setup on the C drive without any problems at all from the CH yoke. I also tried Linda v2.5.7 (patched) yesterday without any problems with the CH yoke. The problem I had with the 2.5.7 installation was that the buttons on my other devices were not responding to the definitions I had set up, so I removed 2.5.7 and decided to persevere with 2.6.7 instead. At least the defined buttons in the 2.6.7 version do seem to work. By the way, I am using the A36 Bonanza in P3D. The other fact that makes me suspicious about what you say is that the joystick always fails exactly at the moment the small LUA Display window appears on the screen telling me that "Linda has started! Ready to Go". I would have thought the joystick might have worked for a short while and perhaps failed at different times after the main FS screen appears, rather than always just as the LUA window appears! Regards Keith

Hi I have just setup a parallel installation of P3D v3.1 on my D drive with FSX on my main C drive. I installed the latest version of FSUIPC 4 on my D drive, and as per instructions installed Linda 2.6.7 in my Modules folder. Once set up it shows all the main hardware of Insight TT switch panel, CH yoke, CH Throttle, and Sidewinder Joystick are configured. I also have CH pedals, but these do not seem to appear in the latest version of Linda. I also have EZDOK installed and working OK. When I run P3D, the CH yoke works for a second or so, then as the window announcing "Linda is working" appears, the CH yoke stops responding. I checked the Properties section of Control Panel/ Devices & Printers for the Yoke, and it shows the buttons and axes are not responding. However, the Sidewinder, Insight panel, and CH throttle quadrant are still OK, so only the CH Yoke is affected. The strange thing is that once I run Linda.exe, the Yoke springs back into life. I have not used it extensively, so I cannot tell if it will stop responding again while using Linda. As a test, I have defined a button on each device, and they all seem to work, but I do not want to do more until I get the problem resolved. Since I do not always use Linda, it would be nice if this apparent error was resolved, otherwise I currently have to run Linda (even if I do not want to use it), in order to get my CH Yoke working again. I use Linda v1.13 with FSX without any such problems. The Linda2.log has quite a lot of lines like "FSX2D_EnumandRestore RangeCheck 0000000" and the last few lines say "HID Unplug detected". If I remove all trace of Linda from my Modules folder, the problem does not occur. Hope you can help. Regards Keith Edit: After adding a few extra random button definitions, by way of a further test, to the devices, I found the CH yoke stopped working again, while I was running Linda. I had to stop Linda and re-run to get The CH Yoke to respond. So something is definitely odd!

Hi Kyle Thanks for your reply. As it happens, after I posted the above, I realised that the PMDG B777 had also been updated. In the process of installing the update for that, the DirectX update ran again. In fact, DirectX was up to date already, though I did not know it when I posted the request. I vaguely remember seeing this happen when I installed the A2A Cessna 182T a few weeks ago! Incidentally, your advice on how to install the B737 and B777 updates on the web-site was spot on and everything went smoothly as far as the updating process was concerned. Thanks again, Keith Bowler

Hi Unfortunately in my haste to complete the install of the new B737NGX 1d, I failed to click OK when asked to update DX9 at the end of the install. Although the aircraft seems to work correctly at first glance, I wonder if something might be affected if I do not have the latest correct DX9. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way of just running that part of the program again, despite trying a repair. How can I get to install the DX9 version supplied with the install? Hope someone can help. Thanks Keith Bowler

Hi Thanks for the prompt reply. I was interested to see how many more commands had been added since version 1.0. Overall the Linda program had made my flight simming so much more interesting. Thanks for all your hard work. Regards, Keith.

Hi Can anyone let me know where to get the MD-11 module version 1.2. The version available in Linda 1.13 is 1.0 and there does not seem to be a working link to v1.2 anywhere in this section Keith