My laptop has an nVidia card. Maybe that's why it works? Simon.
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:17 +0000, Ben Bolker wrote: > Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson <at> lancaster.ac.uk> writes: > > > > > I have just encountered the problem with rgl where plot3d figures > > don't interact with the mouse. My plots zoom in and out with the mouse > > wheel but the mouse buttons do nothing. I can't rotate the plot. > > > > This has been mentioned and discussed here and in other lists before, > > and the solution is to turn off Ubuntu's fancy graphics. Back in > > March, Ben Bolker said: > > > > """ > > unfortunately rgl and compiz/etc. both try to use > > the same OpenGL interface, so you can't use both at > > the same time. > > """ > > > > This has echoes of when TCP/IP was in its infancy back in the days of > > DOS, and only one program could access the network interface at a time > > (until TCP/IP software got its act together). Is OpenGL really in the > > same position now? Or is Compiz being "greedy" in some sense? Surely > > two OpenGL applications can run at the same time? Or is it because rgl > > is running 'within' another OpenGL window already, so there's some > > nesting problem going on? > > > > Google Earth works fine, and I think that uses OpenGL. Anyone had any > > ideas since March? > > > > I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 and R 2.7.1 > > > > Barry > > Unfortunately, an apparently knowledgeable compiz person > said: > > This is a limitation of DRI, DRI2 should fix this, and should hopefully be in > most drivers by Xorg 7.5(maybe 7.6), nvidia has there on implementation, > that's > why it works on it > > http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=8462 > > And poking around, > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYzNw > > "sometime in 2009" is the closest I could get to finding > an expected date when this would be available ... > > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.