[xcrysden] startup problem[xcrysden]

[HANG]

Dear Tone:
Thanks you first,
I have realize the meaning of "stereo",
And the "not support stereo" mseg is just a warning mseg that doesn't
interrupt the startup procedure.
I have tried your method to test what problem it has, but I got same
mseg returned:
Something like: couldn't get visual,
I also checked some code of togl.c in $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/C dir.
But finally I found it's my graphic card driver's problem,
I have checked the log file of x-window(xorg),
And found some err happened when loading modules,
I use the special Nvidia Geforce3 graphic card, and installed its driver
downloaded from its official webpage because it has not a appropriate
driver built in with FreeBSD up to 5.4 Release for i386 arch., it has
Module section configurations by default in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
     19 Section "Module"
     20         Load  "extmod"
     21 #       Load  "dri"
     22         Load  "glx"
     23         Load  "dbe"
     24         Load  "record"
     25         Load  "xtrap"
     26         Load  "type1"
     27         Load  "freetype"
     28 #       Load    "GLcore"
     29 EndSection
Indicated from its installation manual, it is just mentioned that the
"dri" mode maybe cause some conflict problem(but x window just works
well), and the xorg log file also says it got errs when loading "dri",
so I uncommented it, start x again, then everything is ok.

-----Original Message-----
From: xcrysden-admin@democritos.it [mailto:xcrysden-admin@democritos.it]
On Behalf Of Tone Kokalj
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:51 PM
To: xcrysden@democritos.it
Subject: Re: [xcrysden] startup problem[xcrysden]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:41 +0800, chm 90121100 wrote:
> Dear Tone
> 
> i have completed my installation of XCrySDen on my FreeBSD 5.4 Release
system
> but i have a problem to startup this software,
> below is the error message:
> 
> ---error msg begin---
> 
> Running on platform: unix
> Executing: /home/hangchen/XCrySDen-1.4.1s-all/bin/ftnunit
> 
> *** the hardware does not support the stereo ***
> 
> Error in startup script: Togl: couldn't get visual
>     while executing
> "togl .mesa  -width          400  -height         400  -ident
.mesa 
> -rgba           true   -redsize        1      -greensize      1
-blu..."
> ---error msg end---
> first i recognized it a soundware driver problem,

It cannot be a sound related problem: xcrysden does not use sound.

Rather, it is a graphics-card related problem. The problem is exactly as
stated above: Togl: couldn't get visual while executing ...

You can try which option makes the "togl" to fail. To do this, you
should execute a simple script like:

# BEGIN SCRIPT
togl .t \
    -rgba           true  \
    -redsize        1     \
    -greensize      1     \
    -bluesize       1     \
    -double         true  \
    -depth          true  \
    -depthsize      1     \
    -accum          true  \
    -accumredsize   1     \
    -accumgreensize 1     \
    -accumbluesize  1     \
    -accumalphasize 1     \
    -alpha          false \
    -alphasize      1     \
    -stencil        false \
    -stencilsize    1     \
    -auxbuffers     0     \
    -overlay        false \
    -stereo         false \
    -time           100

pack .t
# END SCRIPT

Say you put this in file togl.tcl, then do: $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/bin/xcrys
togl.tcl
You can, for example, delete the options from bottom to top. By doing
that you will realize which options makes "togl" to fail. Then edit
file: $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/Tcl/Viewer.tcl. Search for string "togl" and
remove the problematic option(s).

Let me know your findings ...

Regards, Tone

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