[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.0_rc2

Jack Howarth howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu
Mon Aug 10 17:14:21 PDT 2009


Jeremy,
   I think I may have run into a glitch with the
x86_64 support in X11 on 2.4.0-rc2. The new
rasmol package in fink unstable now builds under
x86_64 fink. When I execute the resulting rasmol
binary, I get...

RasMol Molecular Renderer
Roger Sayle, August 1995
Copyright (C) Roger Sayle 1992-1999
Version 2.7.5 June 2009
Copyright (C) Herbert J. Bernstein 1998-2008
*** See "help notice" for further notices ***
[32-bit version]


Renderer Error: Unable to allocate frame buffer!

whereas the 8-bit version produces...

RasMol Molecular Renderer
Roger Sayle, August 1995
Copyright (C) Roger Sayle 1992-1999
Version 2.7.5 June 2009
Copyright (C) Herbert J. Bernstein 1998-2008
*** See "help notice" for further notices ***
[8-bit version]

No suitable display detected!

This occurs on a MacBook Pro with Radeon X1600.
Interestingly, on a 2008 MacPro with Radeon
HD2600, both x86_64 binaries (rasmol 32-bit
and rasmol 8-bit) run fine but show ...

[24-bit version]

when run. There is no problem running the
i386 fink versions of either package under Xorg
2.4.0-rc2. Thanks in advance for looking at this
if you get a chance.
           Jack


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