Hi all, Before I go out an buy an ATI video card to test/debug this, can anyone else verify that this error occurs on the 965G or other desktop card? The 965GM, I think is a mobile-only card. If someone is experiencing issues on a desktop box, please provide me with the exact setup.
Cheers, -- Jason On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jason Vertrees <jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com> wrote: > Hi Bernhard, > > After re-reading Timothy's original email, this very much sounds like > a driver issue. Timothy reports proper functionality using the same > laptop, but in Windows. Regardless, here's how I responded to > Timothy's question (offline) about the coloring problems: > > """ > Hi Tim, > > There are quite a few details here. > > First, we prefer working with NVidia cards, because they have better > performance and support across the various platforms. But, as you > already have an ATI card, that's moot, and we can move on to the next > point. > > VMD's rendermode set to GLSL means it's using what's called the > "openGL Shader Language" which is a variant of how we draw stuff on > the screen. PyMOL only has openGL shaders for spheres at this point > (set sphere_mode, 5). I will soon be making improvements to PyMOL to > allow for vertex buffer objects and GPU shading (GLSL). > > Things look great after clicking the 'ray' button b/c you're then > looking at a PNG file. (That is, when you normally use PyMOL you're > looking at an openGL screen. When you click 'ray' or type 'ray' PyMOL > will ray trace the screen and display the resulting PNG file. Once > you touch the screen after ray tracing, PyMOL immediately trashes the > PNG file so you can keep working.) > > Sadly, I don't have any answers for you at this point, but I've CC'd > my main technical support guru to see what he knows. I need to get an > ATI card to more testing. > """ > > I cannot be more helpful at this time because my Linux boxes only run > NVidia cards. I will either find a machine or go buy an ATI card for > my Linux box and let you know the results. > > Cheers, > > -- Jason > > -- > Jason Vertrees, PhD > PyMOL Product Manager > Schrodinger, LLC > > (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com > (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 > -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrodinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
