Andrew, What does PYMOL spit out on startup? Is it binding to the OpenGL drivers, or to Mesa?
Also, you might set use_display_lists to take advantage of graphics card memory, etc. For example, on my dual Opteron/nVidia FX1100 based system, this option gives a 3X speedup in rendering. Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Andrew Waight > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:11 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] linux configuration > > Hi all and thanks to Warren for such an awesome program. > > Just switched my lappy to Fedora 4 and I have some questions > regarding whether or not my configuration is correct. For > some reason PyMol has been running a lot slower in Linux than > previously in Windows, especially when resizing the screen or > with the surface displayed. I have searched and searched both > Fedora 3D forums and this one and cant seem to find an answer > so I thought id ask. I have attached my glxinfo output and > xorg.conf (which i configured myself because fglrxconfig > really seems to screw everything up). Im running a pentium > 3.4 with hyperthreading so theoretically Linux should be > smoother considering that Windows XP is horrible at managing > dual CPUs. I also have a ATI radeon 9800 but if I understand > correctly PyMol doesnt take advantage of Graphics Card > memory? It this a possible future option? Just wondering. > Thank you all very much for any help of hints. > > > Andrew Waight > > >
