[Chimera-users] chimera on GM945

[Thomas Goddard]

Hi Dima,

   As Greg mentioned the problem is the poor state of Intel graphics 
drivers on Linux.  I'd try a Chimera 1.4 daily build as he suggests.  If 
that does not help you might be able to improve the slow surface and 
mesh rendering by turning off use of OpenGL vertex buffer objects using 
the Chimera debug graphics dialog.

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/debug/debug.html

You would start Chimera with "chimera --debug-opengl" and switch of 
vertex buffer objects in the dialog that appears.

	Tom

Dmytro Kovalskyy wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I experience porblems with chimera running on Lenovo X60t in Linux.
> graphics: intel GM945
> 
> I have two installations on the notebook: WinXP and Linux (ALT Linux 4.1.1).
> 
> Chimera's benchmark under Windows returns preety nice values (see 
> http://socrates2.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/benchmarks, pre-pre last line, 
> Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet 6363WDP).
> However under linux I can not get even something reasonable to post
> Surf 	  - 1
> Mesh - 26 
> Contouring 149
> Solid 1
> Recoloring 5
> 
> Is it natural or due to some bugs in Linux drivers/X/kernel?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Dima
>