Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

[Jens Schmalzing <jens.schmalzing@physik.uni-muenchen.de>]

Hi,

David J. Roundy writes:

> when I do `startmol --loadonly', I get the following error message:

> # startmol --loadonly
> [...]
> /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/mol.o: unresolved symbol mc_giveup_altivec

> This sounds like code for the G3 (or G4, whenever they introduced
> altivec), while I only have a measly 604e.  Perhaps I needed to
> specify somewhere that I have an older processor?

If you are using the /etc/molrc file created by debconf, then you
should change the `processor' option in this file from G3 to 604.

> And in a separate question, what is the test screen supposed to look like
> for the molvconfig program? All I get is solid blue, red and green screens
> (well, maybe with a bit of a gradient).  

> Does this mean the video is working correctly?

Yes.

> If that is the case, it certainly seems like it would be nicer for
> the test screen to show something indicating success, or at least to
> point out that the correct thing is a colored screen somewhere in
> the docs.

Okay.

Regards, Jens.

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