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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB exits when doing DRC
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:23:47 +0200
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Geoff Swan wrote:

>> I've also had this problem when running VirtualBox without 3D
>> acceleration switched on for the virtual machine.  Unfortunately, this
>> makes PCB largely unusable due to other GL-related problems -- all menus
>> and pop-up windows are hidden behind the main display and are
>> inaccessible.
> 
> The only time I've seen this happen is when I try and turn on
> compositing in metacity. PCB gets really weird though if I try and use
> the new gnome desktop,

One of my students also experienced the pcb crashes-on-DRC problem. This 
was on native linux(debian/wheezy). There was no gnome involved, either. 
These days, we prefer xfce. However, on my personal dexktop, DRC worked 
just fine for the very same pcb files. Setup of the computers is very 
similar except for the differences induced by hardware. Notably, the 
students boxes have nvidia graphic cards while mine has an ATI casrd 
installed. 


> I came to the same conclusion for using pcb in a linux guest virtualbox.

If your main OS is MS-windows, you might consider the windows build of pcb.
You can download it either from DJs server.
        http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/

Or as part of a complete geda-for-windows install from my server at IQO:   
http://bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de/index.html/doku.php?id=schaltungsentwurf:tools:geda_for_ms-windows

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Kai-Martin Knaak