[PyMOL] Re: macpymol beta 21 bug?

[Martin M. <mg...@mr...>]

Hi Warren,

Tested 99beta21 and 99beta25 on a dual 2.5 with ATI 9800 XT (256 MB)  
with 10.4.2 and it works fine.  After upgrading to 10.4.3 on that  
machine, everything is still fine.

Also tried 99beta25 on my machine (ATI 9600 Pro - 64MB) and that  
still has a problem.  I then booted into my back up clone which is at  
10.4.2 and 99beta21 and 99beta25 work just fine.  So the 64MB ATI  
cards look to be dodgy under 10.4.3 whilst the better spec ATI ones  
are OK.  Will try and find a nVidia 64MB equipped mac for comparison.

Having just read Jesper's email regarding getting drivers at ATI's  
website, I had a look and there are no mac drivers available as far  
as I can see.  Only the ATI Displays software.  After installing this  
on my machine, nothing has changed.  The molecule loads fine and the  
window behaves in "default" line representation but when I change to  
cartoon (or any other) representation, the window flickers badly.


Cheers

MGM



On 4 Nov 2005, at 03:48, Warren DeLano wrote:

> Martin,
>
> 10.4.3 is one ingredient in this problem -- ATI may be another...still
> trying to reproduce it here, but so far all our nVidia-based 10.4.3
> machines are doing just fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Warren
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Montgomery [mailto:mg...@mr...]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:08 AM
>> To: Warren DeLano
>> Subject: macpymol beta 21 bug?
>>
>> Hi Warren,
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>> I'm having a problem with 0.99 beta 21.  I get an occasional
>> glitch where the graphics pane and GUI flickers badly when I
>> move/zoom the molecule.  This can be temporarily corrected by
>> resizing the window and typing reset.  However sometimes,
>> after a little while,  the flicker returns.  The "brushed
>> metal" surround of the window does not flicker nor does the
>> text pane.  One possible cause is that I have updated to
>> 10.4.3 and am not sure whether the problem also occurred in
>> 10.4.2 but I could boot into my backup clone and check.
>> 10.4.3 has meant that the fans are running more often even
>> when the computer is doing very little.
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>> I've got a Dual 2Ghz G5 with 3.5G RAM and the stock Radeon
>> 9600 Pro 64mB RAM graphics card into a Cinema 20" display.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> MGM
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