Re: [Ifeffit] Athena Freezing Desktop

2010-02-16 Thread Matt Newville
Hi David, Do you (or can you) see such issues with other applications? I would probably first try /usr/bin/widget, the Perl/Tk demo code (I think that should be installed with the debian package), to see if that ever has the same problem. I might try re-installing (or even rebuilding from source

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena Freezing Desktop

2010-02-16 Thread David Ehle
Bruce, list, It appears that the freezes were probably not caused by running out of ifeffit resources. When I overloaded Athena with 50+ files I got a very well behaved warning, and then it finally declared it simply couldn't do what was asked of it and refused to do anything until I removed

Re: [Ifeffit] Is possible to shift the spectra in athena?

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 11:29:17 am 康明亮 wrote: > Dear, > I want to consult if is possible to shift a spectra in athena? As shown in > the attached file athena.prj, I want to include red-(Se) to do LCF. But I > forgot to measure the red-Se(0) spectra, only grey-Se(0) was measured. > However,

[Ifeffit] Is possible to shift the spectra in athena?

2010-02-16 Thread 康明亮
Dear, I want to consult if is possible to shift a spectra in athena? As shown in the attached file athena.prj, I want to include red-(Se) to do LCF. But I forgot to measure the red-Se(0) spectra, only grey-Se(0) was measured. However, according to the literature, these two references have the sa

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena Freezing Desktop

2010-02-16 Thread David Ehle
Matt, Stefan, I'll be responding to both posts sent to list in the order recieved. Matt, Thank your for your response. I'm going to run athena from a terminal window today (our users use a launcher) and see if I can provoke the problem and collect some actual worthwhile info on the problem.

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena Freezing Desktop

2010-02-16 Thread Stefan Mangold
Dear David Ehle, I had already some trouble at the beamline with a new computer with sudden crashes of X during "doing nothing". We could track this problem down to a bug in the graphic card driver. We could solve this problem by exchanging the consumer graphic card with a 50 Euro more expensiv