[Scilab-Dev] Scilab-5 and rendering a plot under linux

[Collette Yann]

Hello,

Thanks for the comment. I have tried under windows and it works fine for 
me too.

YC

Simone Mannori a écrit :
> Bonjour,
>
> unfortunately the Scilab 5 Java graphics pipeline crash with all the
> Linux ATI 3D driver (binary and open source) that we have tested.
>
> Jean-Baptiste Silvy is in direct contact with ATI and JOGL developers:
> we want to find a way to fix this bug (probably an ATI-Linux driver
> issue) as soon is possible.
>
> In the meanwhile you have two alternatives :
>
> - if you disable all the DRI acceleration features, the MESA software
> only emulation works. Very, Very slow but Scilab 5 works ;
>
> - install the binary version under Windows. Under Windows Scilab 5 works
> with ATI cards perfectly. I personally tested also integrated cards
> (ATI, Intel and SIS) with success. 
>
> Unfortunately for Linux users, the average quality of the ATI Linux
> driver is not at the same level of the Windows version.
>
> With NVIDIA Scilab 5 works perfectly (Linux, Windows).
>
> I have four laptops with ATI cards (three PCs, one Mac), so I am very
> well motivated for this job.
>
> Simone Mannori - Scilab/Scicos Embedded Applications Eng.
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:04 +0100, Collette Yann wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've still a lot of problem to render a plot under linux 
>> mandriva-2008.0. I'm an unlucky owner of an ati radean 9200 PRO graphic 
>> card.
>> I've tried to install the latest ati driver obtained from ati.amd.com 
>> and scilab-5 hangs when I tried to plot a simple curve (see bug 
>> http://www.scilab.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla_bug_II/show_bug.cgi?id=2657).
>> So I decided to switch to the x.org ati driver.
>> First try: I removed the Load "glx" and Load "dri" options with the 
>> "radeon" driver.
>> When I enter the command plot(X,Y), an empty plot windows pops up and an 
>> error message appears in the console (something like "can't find GLX ...").
>> Second try: I added the Load "glx" option and then, the plot windows 
>> appears and a loop  of error messages (related to java) appears in the 
>> console. The list of messages ended with:
>> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java 
>> heap space
>>
>> I join a log of the error messages (the log is gzipped and weight 11Mo 
>> ungzipped !).
>>
>> Yann COLLETTE
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