Mail Archives: geda-help/2013/07/15/07:38:55
Gschem and PCB run just fine on my old laptop (Fedora Core 13 with
stock Gnome desktop). I installed the Nvidia drivers on that machine
some time ago. Haven't had a problem.
However, I recently built a new Fedora Core 19 system. Cinnamon
desktop. I did not install the Nvidia drivers, so I am using
whatever libre drivers the installer decided to use (nouveau?).
Gschem runs fine, but PCB tends to do odd, buggy things graphically.
Sometimes it even seems to lock up. Overall (outside of PCB), the
graphics response is jerkey.
Since I wasn't interested in fiddling around with my graphics set up,
I went back to the laptop for gschem/pcb. However, I suspect two
things might be at fault:
1. Bad open-source video driver. Therefore, install whatever
proprietary drivers are appropriate for your video chipset.
2. My reading suggests that Cinnamon is still somewhat buggy. I
don't know if that's an orthogonal issue to the PCB problems, or
contributes to it.
In any event, I suggest installing the proprietary video drivers on
your machine.
Stuart
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Ian Chapman wrote:
> Hi,
> I've updated to Mint 15-64-cinnamon and gschem looks okay at first glance.
> PCB looks like a disaster, all I get after clicking foo.fp is a white screen
> and everything is so so slow. Mint 13 was not as good as what I used back in
> 2008 in fact my old layouts showed lots of rats so I'd be interested to hear
> what others have experienced. What is a good distro to use for PCB? Possibly
> this is a Nvidia video or gnome issue. Ian.
>
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