Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC (Beld, Joris)

2007-01-23 Thread Esben Jannik Bjerrum
I just looked at some old notes: If you try LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose pymol in a terminal, you might get additional information whats wrong. Esben Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail be

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC (Beld, Joris)

2007-01-23 Thread Esben Jannik Bjerrum
Hi How did you install the Nvidia-drivers? I Once had a similar problem because I had used both the linux distribution package and installed manually with nvidias driver. The old libraries were not properly removed by nvidias installer, giving rise to the partial working OpenGL. Cheers, Es

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-22 Thread Beld, Joris
Dear all, Thanks for all the suggestions. - checked glxinfo and the startup log of pymol and it shows the loading of the propriety GL driver for our Nvidia FX1300 (see copy/paste below) and we're not running MESA. - although...we also have this "freeglut (/usr/pymol/pymol.exe): unable to create.

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-19 Thread DeLano Scientific
ell.edu] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:07 PM To: DeLano Scientific Cc: PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC Warren, > Right now, I would only buy a straight Linux desktop for ideological rather > than practical reasons. If you instead buy a Mac &

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Adrian Meyer
Warren, > Right now, I would only buy a straight Linux desktop for ideological rather > than practical reasons. If you instead buy a Mac "Pro", you get the ability > to run all three operating systems simultaneously, at native CPU speeds, and > on an as-needed basis thanks to virtualization. Rig

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-19 Thread DeLano Scientific
;no win" situation, see <http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6061491.html> -Original Message- From: pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joris Beld Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:46 AM To: PyMOL-users@lists.sou

Re: [PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo GutiƩrrez de Teran
Do you have an error like this in your xterm when you launch the program? freeglut (/home/hteran/tmp/programs/pymol/pymol.exe): Unable to create direct context rendering for window 'PyMOL Viewer' This may hurt performance. If this is the case (it was my case) the solution is obscure, but it w

[PyMOL] pymol slow on linux PC

2007-01-19 Thread Joris Beld
Dear people, We have a rather (half a year) new (AMD64-3700, 2GB RAM, FX1400 running Redhat/Gnome) PC and people complain that pymol on our four year old office PCs (Pentium, on board graphic card, 256MB RAM) is faster in displaying large protein structures (even at same resolution). How could this