<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="" class=""><br style=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Hi Serge,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Merci pour votre réponse.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old
style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Unfortunately, there's not such a "glxinfo" command on my W7 system. But I checked</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">the info about the graphics card (an AMD HD 6670) and apparently OpenGL is there</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">and active (version 6.14.10.12874). I even
updated the driver -- to no avail. Scilab</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">5.5.0 keeps crashing.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">This is frustrating because I don't remember it ever happening before with Scilab or</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class="">any other application.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I don't have to use Scilab, but I like it and would keep it if I could. But, much to my</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">regret, it seems that I either go back to a previous Scilab version or quit Scilab</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman
old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">altogether.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Regards,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class="">Fausto</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, May 16, 2014 5:38:27 AM, Serge Montagnac <obs.psr@wanadoo.fr> wrote:<br style=""
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv6325967262yqt98961"><div style="" class="">On 05/15/2014 07:06 PM, Fausto Arinos
de A. Barbuto wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Hello,<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Neither 32- nor the 64-bit versions of Scilab 5.5.0 seem to like
this computer and it's<br style="" class="" clear="none">
64-bit W7 Ultimate OS. The installs go fine, but when I start
Scilab up all it does<br style="" class="" clear="none">
is to flash its GUI for a tenth of a second and then vanishes.
Task Manager says it's<br style="" class="" clear="none">
not there either running on the background yet invisible or not
responding.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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What could that problem be? Can anyone help? Have any of you
had this problem<br style="" class="" clear="none">
before? What other packages not self-contained in the installer
do I need? I have<br style="" class="" clear="none">
Java 8 64-bit, would that be the problem? Does Scilab generate
an error log report<br style="" class="" clear="none">
I could post here/somewhere to get some insight on the problem?<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Many thanks in advance.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Fausto<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Hi Fausto,<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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I flew away from Microsoft 23 years ago, but I remember that it was
possible for you to<br style="" class="" clear="none">
open a DOS terminal ;-))<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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The reason of your problems is probably an OpenGL configuration
problem.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Could you type "glxinfo" without the quotes and post the result of
this command.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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...if it does not begin like this ... try first to configure
correctly your graphic card driver<br style="" class="" clear="none">
for OpenGL and direct rendering (DRI or DRI2) compatibility.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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[serge@darkstar ~]$ glxinfo<br style="" class="" clear="none">
name of display: :0<br style="" class="" clear="none">
display: :0 screen: 0<br style="" class="" clear="none">
direct rendering: Yes<br style="" class="" clear="none">
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation<br style="" class="" clear="none">
server glx version string: 1.4<br style="" class="" clear="none">
server glx extensions:<br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_buffer_age, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_EXT_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_NV_multisample_coverage,
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync<br style="" class="" clear="none">
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation<br style="" class="" clear="none">
client glx version string: 1.4<br style="" class="" clear="none">
client glx extensions:<br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, <br style="" class="" clear="none">
GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
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"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
Linus Torvalds
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