X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cloud9.net Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Brorson To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Linux Mint 15 In-Reply-To: <51E365C5.2060009@videotron.ca> Message-ID: References: <51E365C5 DOT 2060009 AT videotron DOT ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. >