This is the setup we have at the moment, so I'll give this a try when
I've got a mo. Do you happen to know if the earlier NVidia drivers are
compatible with the 2.6 kernel? I have a thing in my head which says
they're not.
Cheers
Andy
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:45 +0000, Brian Smith wrote:
> Andy,
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Dr Andy Herbert wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that analysis crashes the X server under two reproducible
> > conditions:
> > 1: When I quit analysis without having just saved the project. I can
> > safely quit analysis by saving the project immediately before quiting.
>
> I have had similar problems when using the NVidia accelerated OpenGL
> driver (since NVidia release 6xxx or so), which I suspect you are also
> using. One way around that is to compile Mesa and use that for the OpenGL
> library (by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH). For me there is a slight
> performance hit, but not as bad as switching to Tk.
>
> Brian
>
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