My new laptop has an ATI FireGLV3200 card, and I am using the fglrx driver. I was having problems with seg faults, but using "set use_display_lists" fixed the problem. I did try using the "set nvidia" option that Warren suggested and it crashed my X-server. Had to do a hard reboot. So far so good though with the display_lists option. There clearly are some issues with the ATI GL implementation and pymol, at some level.
Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tim Fenn Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:30 AM To: Peter Adrian Meyer Cc: Warren DeLano; pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] sporadic pymol/X-server freezes? On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Peter Adrian Meyer wrote: > > I guess it shouldn't supprise me that there are issues with proprietary > OpenGL on linux (FYI the two machines I've seen this on are using ATI and > intel graphics cards). I'll try out the options you mentioned. > So the ATI card is using the fglrx driver, I'm assuming (right?), and is the intel card using the Intel graphics drivers from intel.com? I've been told i810 that comes with XOrg is actually better (besides having full 3d support)... but what intel chipset are you using? Have you tried the NON-proprietary drivers? > Your idea about known-working (and non-working) combinations of hardware > seems like a very good thing to do. > If its a proprietary driver, my money is on a buggy driver that doesn't cooperate with the kernel. > > > > > >> Has anyone else run into cases where pymol will freeze the > >> X-server (pymol doesn't repond to mouse or keyboard input; > >> keyboard non-responsive to caps-lock on/off)? The system is > >> still stable, I'm able to login remotely and see that pymol > >> is running at 100% CPU. Killing pymol results in xorg > >> running at 100% CPU (killing the xorg process as root doesn't > >> do anything). So xorg quits, but the monitor stays frozen? Or the xorg process doesn't die? If its the latter, can you just send it a KILL (try an INT signal first, of course)? Anything in dmesg or the XOrg logs? Can you grab the XOrg pid with gdb and get a stack trace? Can you switch over to a console (ctrl-alt-f1, typically)? -Tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim Fenn f...@stanford.edu Stanford University, School of Medicine James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Room E300 Stanford, CA 94305-5432 Phone: (650) 736-1714 FAX: (650) 736-1961 --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
