You're probably better off getting a Powermate. The thing doesn't come close to dials in terms of convenience but it works smoothly with O, coot and PyMOL.
Andreas On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Oliver Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Apologies if this has been asked before - does anyone know if it is possible > (and if so, how) to get an SGI dial box to work with Coot 0.6? > Cheers, > Oliver Clarke > On 10/01/2010, at 11:01 AM, COOT automatic digest system wrote: > > From: COOT automatic digest system <[email protected]> > Date: 10 January 2010 11:01:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: COOT Digest - 8 Jan 2010 to 9 Jan 2010 (#2010-6) > Reply-To: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software > <[email protected]> > > > There is 1 message totalling 62 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. OS X /fink coot update problems > > > > From: "William G. Scott" <[email protected]> > Date: 10 January 2010 7:11:02 AM > Subject: OS X /fink coot update problems > > > Yo: > > Several people wrote to me in the last couple of days about different > problems with respect to the latest coot update in fink. This all happened > at the beginning of term so I haven't really had enough time to deal with > this systematically. > > Briefly, I put coot 0.6 is in the stable and unstable branch of fink > sometime around the Unorthodox Holiday. Subsequently I updated two > dependency packages in the unstable branch of fink: guile18-gtk and > clipper, and then updated to one of the 0.6.1 pre-releases in unstable > (revision-2678). I don't want to touch what is in "stable" until I know it > is in fact "stable." Any or all of these could have created problems > (although I tested these on a variety of machines and didn't notice > anything). > > If you run the command > > % fink list -i coot clipper guile18-gtk > > you should see something like this: > > Information about 8154 packages read in 1 seconds. > i clipper-shlibs 1:2.1-14 Object-oriented > crystallographic libraries > i coot 0.6.1-pre-1-1 Crystallographic molecular > graphics > i coot-shlibs 0.6.1-pre-1-1 Crystallographic molecular > graphics > i guile18-gtk 2.1-2 Glue code to link gtk to > guile > i guile18-gtk-shlibs 2.1-2 Glue code to link gtk to > guile > > If you have earlier versions, please update. > > I also recommend > > (a) having the most recent version of Xcode (the apple compilers, etc) > compatible with your OS > (b) Apple's official X11 distribution if you are on 10.6 or plan to update > to 10.6. > (c) if you have a 64-bit capable machine, use the 64-bit fink, ccp4, etc. as > this is the future > > If I haven't gotten back to you, email me again please, and include every > relevant detail (version of OS X, fink version, Xcode version, X11 version, > output of above command, etc.) and I will do my best to try to deduce what > might be problematic. Meanwhile, please accept my apologies. > > Bill > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The information in this email is confidential and intended solely for the > addressee. > You must not disclose, forward, print or use it without the permission of > the sender. > ______________________________________________________________________ >
