Hi For my veryvery important and extremely sophisticated calculations I do download libmotif and then I burn some CPU time on my precious amd64 to compile it and then I install it. apt-src install libmotif*** fakeroot debian/rules binary Vola!
/Gudon Þann Miðvikudagur 13 desember 2006 17:44 skrifaði Francesco Pietra: > Hi Len, Hi all: > > I do use openGL for my molecular mechanics software > and with the etch RC1 installation I got it working > better than on previous use of nvidia drivers. Even in > combination with povray-3.6 (provided the official > package from povray is used; with the debian package > 3.6 of povray I had troubles). Perhaps also because > now I use gnome. I merely downloaded from unstable > libmotif3_2.2.3-1.5.deb and installed it on my i386 > etch (I am talking here about i386; on the amd64 > machine I do mechanical/quantum/chemical computation > only, so that I have not yet got X). The libmotif on > etch does not afford support to openGL on my system. > Not even before when I used nvidia drivers. In fact, I > did the same as aboveon previous use of nvidia > drivers, although I had glx installed. Probably I had > a faulty installation. Now everything is fine. > > No, I never play motion-picture, no time and I don't > like it on the small screen. And the great time of > motion-pictures is over. > > cheers > francesco pietra > > > --- Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:25:56PM -0800, Francesco > > > > Pietra wrote: > > > Thank you for answering, though my point was to > > > > where > > > > > learning as this my new installation without > > > > nvidia > > > > > works. Why should I install nvidia when it works > > > perfectly and very speedy? Finally, everything was > > > done through official debian and I suppose they > > > > know > > > > > how to do. > > > > The nvidia binary driver does DRI openGL. The free > > driver is 2D only. > > I also believe the free driver doesn't do video > > playback acceleration > > while the binary one does. Of course if you never > > play video or use any > > opengl programs, then there is no reason to use the > > binary driver. > > > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. > Try it now.