Re: [openvrml-develop] openvrml on Fedora 13

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 00:07 -0500, Philip Vetter wrote: 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a functional VRML player for 
> scientific visualization on Fedora (13)?
> 
> Has anyone had any success with openvrml-player on fedora 13 x64_86?
> 
> I find it opens very few files successfully,
> hangs or crashes on most I've tried,
> and when maximized, crashes X completely.
> 
> I'm using
> openvrml-player
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 0.18.6
> Release     : 1.fc13
> 
> some bugs have been reported at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670376
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670378
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639545 (i686)
> 
> Thank you for whatever help or advice you may have.

I will take a look at these as soon as I can.

Note, though, whenever X "crashes completely", your video driver is the
likely culprit.  There's almost certainly nothing to be done in OpenVRML
for that case.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>