William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Apr 2, 6:17 pm, "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> I've been having some problems with 3D plots in Sage 2.11. >> >> >> [...] >> >> > FC6 ships gcj instead of the Sun Java SDK. Recent version of gcj do >> > mostly work with jmol, but FC6's gcj is known to be broken. I would >> > recommend to install the Sun Java SDK. Alternatively you could update >> > the gcj runtime, but that is potentially painful and will likely break >> > other Java related things. >> > >> >> Same for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8! Jmol does work from the command line of >> Sage. >> >> In Fedora 7 I never saw more the a blue rectangle. In Fedora 8 there is >> more to see, but never the intended plot. > > Did you try using the Sun Java SDK? >
I have Sun Java SDK as a plugin in my web browsers. So I can use jmol from the notebook! > If jmol never works with gcj, I propose that when calling to jmol > (esp. from the command line where we have control), we check > if gcj is going to be used, and if so, just give an error and tell > people they have to install the Sun Java SDK or should use > viewer='tachyon' instead. > That would be better than having hanging processes :) > Also, we could lean on (or become part of) > the jmol developers and ask them to support gcj... > For the ease of use for Fedora users this would be great. Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
