Re: [Visualpython-users] Crash when quit

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

Definitely an interesting situation. Presumably there's something wrong 
with your graphics card driver, as you say, and the only fix is probably 
an updated driver (which of course may not exist). Perhaps VPython runs 
as a remote display because the timing is somewhat different.

Concerning trying the beta version, what libraries are you missing?

Bruce Sherwood

Frédéric Mantegazza wrote:
> On samedi 22 décembre 2007, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
>   
>> This isn't a familiar-sounding problem. What version of VPython is this?
>> Did you build it from a tarball or obtain it from an existing Debian
>> package? When you say "the display hide() method", do you mean
>> scene.visible = False, or something else?
>>
>> VPython is known to work on a variety of Linux platforms, so it isn't
>> something as simple as "it doesn't work on Linux".
>>     
>
> Ok, I made some more tests. My wife as the same computer, same debian lenny 
> up-to-date, but a different graphics card. Mine is a ATI Radeon M9 (r200) 
> (working with free radeon driver), hers is a NVidia, with NVidia drivers.
>
> Here are the results:
>
> - vpython works fine on her computer
> - vpython works fine if I connect to my computer from hers (using ssh -X)
> - vpython works fine if I connect to her computer from mine (using ssh -X)
> - vpython crashes if I launch it from my computer
>
> So, there is something related to my video card driver, but I don't know 
> what. I would have understood if vpython always crashed when I *display* 
> it on *my* computer (directly running it on my computer, or running it on 
> my wife's one, throught ssh -X), as OpenGL stuff used is the one where the 
> display occurs... But here, it is a little different.
>
> Does someone has an idea? How can I make further tests to find the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
>