Re: keyjnote crashes computer

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 02 Oct 2006, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I installed the Debian version of a new pdf presentation programme
> > > called keyjnote. It refused to run. I got the original version from
> > > sourceforge and that also failed to run. This is version 0.8.2.
> > >
> > > I emailed the author, who said it was something to do with sound
> > > recognition, which was not required anyway. He posted a new version
> > > (0.8.3) on sourceforge a couple of days ago. This produces a total crash
> > > on my machine (blank screen) and I have to reboot. 
> > >
> > > It looks as if this programme is best avoided, at least for the present.
> > > Has anyone else tried it?
> > The 0.8.2 version in unstable works just fine here. I would suspect that
> > there is a problem with your display driver and opengl (which keyjnote
> > uses). Do any other 3D apps run ok on your machine?
> >
> > --
> > CJ van den Berg
> >
> > mailto:cj@vdbonline.com
> >   xmpp:cj@vdbonline.com
>
>
> I don't think 3D does work here; at least, googlearth does not. I have a
> Matrox G550 using the standard mga driver.
>
> I'll try the program on my IBM Thinkpad, though that does not give 3D
> rendering either in spite of lengthy attempts to get googleearth working
> on it.

But googleearth always crashed after a little while. Is that a good test?
H