[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#567400: python-visual doesn't work with nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx, works with other video adapters

[wzabolot@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl]

W dniu 11.09.2010 01:55, Andreas Beckmann pisze:
> On 2010-09-10 20:55, wzabolot at elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote:
>    
>> I have downloaded:
>> nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source_96.43.18-1_i386.deb
>>      
> ...
>    
>> Finally I have updated whole system. After that I have rebooted the
>> machine and run the vpython demo. Unfortunately, it still crashes,
>> producing the attached bug report.
>>      
> That's a pity. The stacktrace does not include any symbols that
> definitivly point to nvidia-glx. Did you try different Xorg driver, e.g. nv?
>
>    
No I haven't, as 3D acceleration is essential to the task to be performed
on this machine. I have no such problems on machines with other chipsets
(exactly Intel ones - 82865G or newer).
> Could someone with a similar 96xx setup try to reproduce the problem?
>
> I just saw the following in one of the bugs you referenced in the
> original report:
>
>      From: Pietro Battiston<me at pietrobattiston.it>
>
>      Samuel, do you have libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev installed?
>
>      I get a very similar backtrace to yours on my (64 bit) system, but
>      the problem disappears if I install that package.
>
>      Pietro
>
> Could you try this? The corresponding bug is marked as fixed-in-vcs, so
> that will get fixed with the next upload of python-visual. Could this
> fix your problem, too?
>
>    
Maybe, in fact my python-visual is version 5.12, while the newest version on
http://vpython.org/ is 5.32
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Thanks, Wojtek