Re: [Visualpython-users] Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) installation/fix: WARNING!!

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

Hi Gary,

the symptoms you've mentioned indicate that something else went (massively) 
wrong, as I doubt that any "normal" Python process or anything that the Visual 
library can do would result in such effects. Maybe it's got to do with your 
graphic card's drivers. Anyway, whatever process *you* start should usually 
*only* be able to affect user space things. But your descriptions go way 
beyond what a graphics based application generally would do.

I have just checked again here, and all demos I've checked worked. Well, 
stonehenge.py did not, but that was only due to the fact that the file 
"flower128.tga" is not present in the samples directory. I don't know, maybe 
it was removed due to licensing issues or just forgotten. But also all surface 
textures worked here.

It would however be good to track down what your problem is. Maybe not as much 
for VPython as for your own system's sake. Have a look at /var/log/messages 
and /var/log/syslog what might have happened and led to the crash. Also check 
whether other OpenGL based applications show similar effects.

Hope these were some hints on tracking down the cause,

Guyt

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