Re: [ccp4bb] slow graphic in mac 10.6

2010-02-15 Thread Andreas Förster
Hey Rui, for what it's worth, I had a very similar problem. I upgraded a MacBook Pro to OSX SP6 and got extra-slow graphics and a wildly flickering PyMOL window - only on the laptop screen, though. On the external screen, PyMOL looked ok. Ray-tracing was painfully slow in either window.

Re: [ccp4bb] slow graphic in mac 10.6

2010-02-15 Thread Serge Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For what it is worth (I'm fairly confident that indeed this is not the cause of the problem you are seeing, but better checking than missing the point): The current MacBook Pro also have two GPU, one integrated in the chipset and a more powerful

Re: [ccp4bb] slow graphic in mac 10.6

2010-02-15 Thread Andreas Förster
Serge, this might indeed be the problem for some, but my MacBook is of an older vintage and only has one GPU. Andreas On 15/02/2010 10:10, Serge Cohen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For what it is worth (I'm fairly confident that indeed this is not the cause of

Re: [ccp4bb] slow graphic in mac 10.6

2010-02-12 Thread William G. Scott
Dear Rui: Did you by any chance install an old ppc version of X11 onto an intel machine? If so, it might be running via Rosetta, which is an emulator provided for transition, but could account for lousy performance. OS X 10.6 comes with X11 installed by default, so you might have clobbered