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Re: Segmentation fault in XOP on Etch - problem solved!



On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:16:17AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Carlo Segre wrote:
> 
> >
> >I have more information now.  The problem is an incompatibilty with 
> >DRM/DRI in the xserver.  The machine on which XOP works fine does not have 
> >a working DRI.  When I disable the loading of the dri module in a machine 
> >in which XOP was not functioning, it now works, although it spits out some 
> >error messages as shown below.  It may be that thereis a way to make the 
> >program work with DRI enables but I have not figured it out yet.
> >
> 
> The actual problem was with the GL libraries in Debian conflicting with 
> the libraries shipped with XOP.  When DRI is disabled, the program drops 
> back to non-accelerated operation and this works fine.  The fix is to 
> remove the libraries that ship with XOP
> 
> xop2.1/idl_6.0/bin/bin.linux.x86/gl_driver.so
> xop2.1/idl_6.0/bin/bin.linux.x86/gl_driver.so.6.0
> 
> The the program uses the Debian libraries and works fine in accelerated 
> mode!  Once I knew that there was a problem with DRI causing the 
> segmentation fault, I was able to find the following thread on the ITT web 
> site.
> 
> http://www.ittvis.com/forum/message.asp?fmid=2423
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carlo (who is at _IIT_ not ITT ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics
> Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> Voice: 312.567.3498            Fax: 312.567.3494
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Thank you and George.
It is really solved.
I can uninstall 2.4 kernel now ). 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury Yuryev.



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