PyMOL Users, A major PyMOL sponsor is having problems with the Mobility Radeon 9000 chip on their Dell laptops under Windows XP. I am curious to know whether others have seen or are encountering similar problems with this chipset. The issue is as follows:
When attempting to choose atoms using the mouse, either picking or selecting, the system experiences a hard system freeze and total loss of responsiveness, no blue-screen, no mouse movement, no nothing. The only recovery is a power-off system reboot. Has anyone else experienced this behavior on identical or related hardware? And if so, has anyone found a solution? such as a particular driver upgrade or downgrade? Or on the contrary, are there plenty of people out there with Radeon 9000-based PCs running PyMOL just fine? Any information about experiences with Radeon 8500-to-9200-based cards under Windows could be helpful. However, please send feedback to me directly mailto:war...@delsci.com in order to avoid unnecessary technical traffic on the mailing list. I will of course summarize once the situation becomes clear. Cheers, Warren -- mailto:war...@delsci.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist DeLano Scientific LLC Voice (650)-346-1154 Fax (650)-593-4020
