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

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

There are no licensing issues with flower128.tga (I took that picture of cactus 
flowers myself), and I don't know why it would be missing.

Bruce Sherwood

Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> 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
>