I have tried the new xcrysden available via fink on Mac OS X Lion. It works like a charm then. So probably there is some issues with external libraries.<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Henrik<br><div><br></div><div> <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/20 Zhu, Jian-Xin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jxzhu@lanl.gov">jxzhu@lanl.gov</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dan,<br>
<br>
I have the same horrible problem on my Mac OS X Lion machine.<br>
Sometime David once indicated to me that tcl and/or tk could also be a<br>
cause.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
JX<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: "Dan Michael O. Heggø" <<a href="mailto:d.m.o.heggo@ub.uio.no">d.m.o.heggo@ub.uio.no</a>><br>
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:34 +0100<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:xcrysden@democritos.it">xcrysden@democritos.it</a>><br>
Subject: [xcrysden] The rapid screen flickering issue on Mac OS X<br>
<br>
>Hi,<br>
><br>
>First I'm very glad to see XCrysDen now compiles quite easily on Mac<br>
>OS X! (at least when having a rich MacPorts installation)<br>
>The shared and semishared packages also starts without any library<br>
>issues on my Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2) installation.<br>
><br>
>But there is an issue in every case... a quite big one... I'm<br>
>observing the "rapid flicker" issue described earlier here:<br>
><br>
><a href="http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2011-July/001006.html" target="_blank">http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2011-July/001006.html</a><br>
><a href="http://markmail.org/message/zfol72gfbbxnmyox" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/message/zfol72gfbbxnmyox</a><br>
><br>
>Sadly this makes the program quite unusable. Are there any news on<br>
>this one? Or ideas about what might cause it? I've updated all<br>
>macports packages.<br>
>Thinking perhaps this was an issue with MESA on Mac OS X Lion, I tried<br>
>running som MESA tests, but they ran fine without any flickering.<br>
>Also, other X11 apps run fine.<br>
><br>
>And then, curiously when I tried to record my screen using<br>
>screencapture, the flickering did not show in the recorded movie! But<br>
>David also noted in one of the mails above that the flickering<br>
>disappears over VNC, so I guess it's the same (strange) cause behind<br>
>this.<br>
><br>
>I use mesa @7.11.2_0<br>
><br>
>otool -L xcrys returns:<br>
><br>
> /opt/local/lib/libfftw3.3.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current<br>
>version 7.0.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libmeschach.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.2.0,<br>
>current version 1.2.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libtk8.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.5.0, current<br>
>version 8.5.11)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.5.0, current<br>
>version 8.5.11)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libGLU.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.3.0, current<br>
>version 1.3.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libGL.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.2.0, current<br>
>version 1.2.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libXmu.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current<br>
>version 9.0.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current<br>
>version 10.0.0)<br>
> /opt/local/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current<br>
>version 11.0.0)<br>
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current<br>
>version 159.1.0)<br>
><br>
><br>
>Best wishes,<br>
>Dan Michael Heggø<br>
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