[Therion] Loch fails on Fedora 30
Hello everyone - I just noticed that Loch no longer works on Fedora 30. I use the version that is packaged by JM Begley. Launching from a KDE menu spins an hourglass for about 2 seconds and then goes away. When launched from a command shell, the only output is "Error: glXCreateContext failed". This happens on both my laptop and desktop, which have two different display drivers. It also happens on a VirtualBox guest. Is there a way to get a more detailed log file? Thanks! -- Bill Gee ___ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
Re: [Therion] BreakOut 3D cave viewer
On 2019-06-26 07:10 -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > Update: > I tried it on Ubuntu 18.04 and debian stretch. It runs on both, but the file menu is hidden behind the display pane (so the 'Import' option is not visible (I managed to get it to appear a couple of times with some twiddling). I see it comes from Mr Edwards, who's 'dewalls' package I have already packaged (a dependnecy of cavewhere). Guess I'd better do this one too. > After much web searching, I think the problem on my laptop is not with > Breakout itself but rather with the display driver. Breakout requires GLX3, > but the Intel i915 display driver for my Lenovo Thinkpad T410 does not > provide that. It only provides GLX2. I'm using a thinkpad here with "Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]" I guess that's a generation or two newer than an i915. > The two systems that work are running nVidia and VirtualBox display drivers. > I have not tried it with Nouveau. The nVidia display driver I use is the > kmod packaged driver from the Fedora repository. My Stretch machine is running nouveau. Seems to work the same (badly WRT menu visibility) as the intel driver) > Breakout Cave Survey Viewer duplicates much of the functionality > provided by Aven and Loch. The main new feature is searching. You > can tell Breakout to search for a particular survey station and it > will take you there. Aven has that already. Do you mean it is different in some significant way. I'll report the menu bug on the breakout github and do a bit of gentle packaging when I have some tuits. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
Re: [Therion] BreakOut 3D cave viewer
Update: I installed Breakout Cave Survey Viewer on three different Fedora 30 systems. It works on two of them. It does not import the PLT files generated by Therion. According to the documentation, when you import Compass data you must specify both a PLT and a MAK file. Therion generates only the PLT. After much web searching, I think the problem on my laptop is not with Breakout itself but rather with the display driver. Breakout requires GLX3, but the Intel i915 display driver for my Lenovo Thinkpad T410 does not provide that. It only provides GLX2. The two systems that work are running nVidia and VirtualBox display drivers. I have not tried it with Nouveau. The nVidia display driver I use is the kmod packaged driver from the Fedora repository. Breakout Cave Survey Viewer duplicates much of the functionality provided by Aven and Loch. The main new feature is searching. You can tell Breakout to search for a particular survey station and it will take you there. It can also search for a range of stations, a named passage or room, surveys by date and much more. On the other hand - Breakout does not provide a way to see the straight-line distance between any two survey stations. It does not display the bounding box. -- Bill Gee On Monday, June 24, 2019 11:15:33 AM CDT Bill Gee wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I attended the NSS annual convention in Cookeville, TN last week. There was > a very interesting presentation on a 3D cave viewing software that might be > interesting to this group. The web site is > > https://breakoutcavesurvey.com > > The program is pure Java, so it requires a Java Runtime Environment of some > kind. The whole thing is just one .jar file.The demonstration was on a > Mac laptop. It starts on my desktop running Fedora 30, but gives an OpenGL > error on my laptop. There are probably some missing libraries of some kind. > The developer said that it will run on Windows. > > The viewer knows how to deal with Compass and Walls files. Therion can > output a Compass PLT file, so should be able to feed Breakout. I have not > tried this yet. > > ___ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
