I have just tried to install grass on Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit. Everything is fine apart from nviz, which only shows the image as I change position/zoom etc., that is it goes blank when left alone! I have an ati 4870 and have tried both the latest catalyst drivers and the restricted drivers but to no avail. Interestingly it does the same thing running the native windows version under vista (32 bit) running as a VM in virtualbox.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution or should I go back to 8.04?
Hello,
current NVIZ is pretty picky about drivers and window managers (focus
policy). Try to disable automatically render display feature in NVIZ.
It may help.
Maris.
2008/12/30, Darrel Maddy <darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk>:
Hi all,
I have just tried to install grass on Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit. Everything is fine
apart from nviz, which only shows the image as I change position/zoom etc.,
that is it goes blank when left alone! I have an ati 4870 and have tried
both the latest catalyst drivers and the restricted drivers but to no avail.
Interestingly it does the same thing running the native windows version
under vista (32 bit) running as a VM in virtualbox.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution or should I go back to
8.04?
Many thanks for the suggestions. I tried for more hours than I care to admit to solve this without success.
I eventually removed the HD4870 and exchanged it for my old nvidia 8800GTS. GRASS now works in intrepid64 (although it is 6.2!). I could not get 6.4 to compile but I probably gave up too easily (it was late last night) and I will try again shortly.
Interesting GRASS also works on my Vista64 bit machine with the HD4870 catalyst drivers installed (although installation of the catalyst drivers was not a simple matter!).
Why does working in 64bit seem to cause so many driver issues! Both of my machines have >4Gb ram and I simply want/need to use it. I always knew Vista was a pain but this has also shaken my trust in linux.
Anyhow I now have both systems working so I am happy - for now :).
Thanks again for all the help.
Darrel
Prof Darrel Maddy
Chair of Quaternary Sciences
Newcastle University
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Darrel Maddy
<darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
Many thanks for the suggestions. I tried for more hours than I care to admit to solve this without success.
I eventually removed the HD4870 and exchanged it for my old nvidia 8800GTS. GRASS now works in intrepid64 (although it is 6.2!). I could not get 6.4 to compile but I probably gave up too easily (it was late last night) and I will try again shortly.
Please let us know what failed. Maybe we can quickly help.
Interesting GRASS also works on my Vista64 bit machine with the HD4870 catalyst drivers installed (although installation of the catalyst drivers was not a simple matter!).
Why does working in 64bit seem to cause so many driver issues! Both of my machines have >4Gb ram and I simply want/need to use it. I always knew Vista was a pain but this has also shaken my trust in linux.
Perhaps an Ubuntu issue here? I am using 64bit Linux without troubles
for years meanwhile.
I eventually removed the HD4870 and exchanged it for my old nvidia 8800GTS. GRASS now works in intrepid64 (although it is 6.2!). I could not get 6.4 to compile but I probably gave up too easily (it was late last night) and I will try again shortly.
"Please let us know what failed. Maybe we can quickly help."
./configure cannot find the tcl/tk headers (although I have installed both). This is probably a simple thing to resolve but I was tired when I tried this. I think it is probably just a location issue for the 64bit Intrepid.
Why does working in 64bit seem to cause so many driver issues! Both of my machines have >4Gb ram and I simply want/need to use it. I always knew Vista was a pain but this has also shaken my trust in linux.
"Perhaps an Ubuntu issue here? I am using 64bit Linux without troubles
for years meanwhile."
Yes, I agree, although a quick search in google shows the myriad of problems with the ati drivers. I have had no problems with the 32bit Ubuntu (albeit without the ati card) but few scripts work out of the box with the 64bit version. I need Jachym to do the hard work for me in Intrepid! (I guess a 6 month release cycle asks a lot of everyone).