On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 19:49 +0100, Hans De Jonge wrote:
> Hi
>
> Although I developed quite some linux tweaking experience in the last
> eight years, I cannot get any vrml-viewer to display vrml-data in a
> window on my screen. (I need to display the shape of the fermi surface
> of tungsten to get an idea of the electron trajectories in strong
> magnetic fields in a solid state physics experiment)
> Since I use a debian system I did not use the fedora-core rpm but
> compiled freewrl from the tar-ball which succeeded after installing
> some new develpment packages.
>
> Upon running the application though, I get a window; the image of the
> desktop content underneath it (usually part of the xterminal-window)
> is copied into the window and this image is dragged along with the
> window, instead of it showing the wrl picture.
>
> The same thing happens with freevrml, octagoFreePlayer and Orbisnap,
> so I suspect it is not a typical openvrml problem, but since you must
> have more knowledge in these matters like XFree86 topics I hope
> someone can help me solving this problem or give pointers to the
> documentation I was not able to find.
>
> Some more information:
>
> My graphics chip is an sis630, connected to my laptop LCD-screen
> X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 20050908031534
> David Nusinow <dnu...@de...>)
> Home-built linux kernel 2.6.13.4 to which I applied the win4lin patch
> sun-j2sdk1.5 and sun-j2re1.5 debianised installed
> Blackdown java3D (sdk)
>
> further:
> Although my Xorg.0.log logfile contans the message:
>
> (WW) Ignoring request to load module GLcore
>
> on line 155, I suspect GLcore is loaded judging from the lines 218-227
> furtheron:
Are you able to run *any* OpenGL application? (I'm guessing not.)
Have you tried reverting to a stock kernel?
Sorry, but I don't have much insight into arbitrary X failures. You
might want to try <deb...@li...>.
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