Hi Kay, Ethan and Dale, I don't want to turn this into a "me too" thread, but I can confirm that I also see this issue. My system is a 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 kernel 3.11, with the HD3000 graphics on an i7-2640M CPU.
As Ethan mentions, this is in the software stack somewhere. Best regards, Folmer 2014-03-28 8:25 GMT+01:00 Kay Diederichs <kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de>: > Hi Ethan and Dale, > > I assume that you were talking about HD 5000 performance on Linux? > > I confirm, for 64bit Ubuntu 12.04LTS and kernel 3.5.0, that the problem > with the labels exists in coot on a HD 4000 machine. Apart from that quirk, > the graphics are fast (and HD5000 would be even faster). > > best, > > Kay > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:52:48 -0700, Ethan A Merritt < > merr...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > >On Thursday, 27 March, 2014 11:25:32 Dale Tronrud wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> My lab desktop PC broke and I'm looking into replacements. Being > >> tired of the enormous tower (full of air) occupying much of my desk > >> I looking at systems like the Intel NUC. These systems are too small > >> for video cards so I'd be working with the integrated Intel graphics. > >> Is the 5000 version of their graphics good enough for Coot to work > >> nice? I am not interested in stereo. > > > >Yes and no. > > > >I have been happily running a succession of fanless mini-ITX > >boxes at home, and for at least the last 4 years the HD 3000/4000 > >integrated graphics has been more than adequate for anything I wanted > >to do. (that's the "yes" part). > > > >But the most recent box I purchase is also an HD4000 system and coot > >has a problem with it (see separate thread). > >It is quite fast right up until the instant that any atom labels appear, > >at which point it slows down by a factor of ten. > >This is clearly a software quirk, but I have been unable to > >pin down where in the graphics stack it occurs. For now I am trying > >to get used to clicking "clear all labels" before rotating the view. > >That's the "no" part. > > > >All other programs I use are fine, by the way. > >I have only see this quirk with coot. > > > > Ethan > > > > > >> > >> Dale Tronrud > >> > -- Folmer Fredslund
