I've given it a quick run on a new Powerbook with the ATI Radeon 9700 w/128 MB, and I can't reproduce the flicker. Same thing with a G5 with a 9800 with 256 MB. My dual G4 with a Radeon 9000 (128 MB) does show the flicker, however, and Jespers trick does the trick. No more flicker.
Dan -- Dr. Daniel Moriarty Siena College Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept. 515 Loudon Road Loudonville, NY 12211 (518) 783-2472 fax: (518) 276-4887 > From: Martin Montgomery <m...@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:05:10 +0000 > To: pymol-users <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Re: macpymol beta 21 bug in 10.4.3? > > Just for completeness, I've now checked a 20" G5 iMac with a 128MB > ATI card and it is fine. Also, I can confirm that there is not a > problem whilst using X11 pymol on a 64MB ATI card. > > Cheers > > MGM > > > > > > Flicker problem here on a PowerBook 1.5 G4 w/ 64 MB ATI card under > 10.4.3 however, if I launch X11 and run PyMol under that - (version > 0.97), then there's no problem > > Chris > > > > > On 4 Nov 2005, at 12:26, Martin Montgomery wrote: > >> I've just tested a G5 imac with a GeForce FX5200 with 64MB RAM and >> macpymol 99beta21/25 and it works fine with 10.4.3. It seems the >> problem is limited to ATI graphics cards with less than 256 RAM. >> nVidea cards are not affected. Will try an ATI card with 128MB RAM >> if I can find one here. >> >> I have also used my powerbook which has an ATI card and has the >> flicker problem to boot (via target mode firewire) a G5 iMac with >> an nVidea card and there is no problem when the powerbook system >> uses the iMac graphics. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> MGM >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 4 Nov 2005, at 12:08, khin...@cea.fr wrote: >> >>> On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:38, Martin Montgomery wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> On my iMac G4 (nVidia GeForce FX 5200 with 64 MB VRAM), I have not >>> noticed any change after updating to 10.4.3. I use a self-compiled >>> PyMol 0.98. >>> >>> Konrad. >>> -- >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Konrad Hinsen >>> Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, >>> 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France >>> Tel.: +33-1 69 08 79 25 >>> Fax: +33-1 69 08 82 61 >>> E-Mail: khin...@cea.fr >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> SF.Net email is sponsored by: >>> Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App >>> Server. Download >>> it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own >>> Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PyMOL-users mailing list >>> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> SF.Net email is sponsored by: >> Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. >> Download >> it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own >> Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php >> _______________________________________________ >> PyMOL-users mailing list >> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
