Re: [Visualpython-users] Segmentation Fault

[Nicolas B. <nbi...@gm...>]

2010/8/17 Guenter Schneider <Gue...@ph...>

> I am not surprised that visual runs on nvidia. I never had problems before.
> For ATI cards the following worked for me (note that my problem was never a
> complete crash on import but a seg fault for particular commands, but it may
> work for you).
>
> import wx
> import visual
>
> The rational is that wx has proper initialization for opengl while visual
> does not.
>
> Guenter
>

Wow, ok, so that made it:

> $ python
> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Aug 17 2010, 14:03:21)
> [GCC 4.5.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import wx
> >>> import visual
> >>> visual.sphere()
> i915_program_error: Exceeded max instructions
> <visual.primitives.sphere object at 0x22d47e0>
>
and I see a sphere.

I just tried my script and it seems to work. But it is really slow compared
to pymol with the same data, even on the intel card.. On the nvidia card,
it's blazing fast...