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:m...@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:08 AM
To: Warren DeLano
Subject: macpymol beta 21 bug?
Hi Warren,
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.
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
Martin Montgomery
Director's Group
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 2XY
