[xcrysden] The rapid screen flickering issue on Mac OS X

[Henrik Löfås]

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.

Regards
Henrik



2012/1/20 Zhu, Jian-Xin <jxzhu at lanl.gov>

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