[Gmsh] Am I the only one?

[lukshuntim at gmail.com]

Martin Vymazal wrote:
> Dear gmsh developers,
> 
>  as I wrote to the mailing list about a week ago, I have serious
> problems with the latest version of gmsh. When I start it and try to
> open any *.geo file, my cpu load goes to 100% and the main window of
> gmsh is simply plain white. Gmsh doesn't react to any user input. When I
> posted an email about this to the mailing list last week, it was simply
> ignored. I noticed that there's a new stable version of gmsh as of
> August 22. The problem persists on my laptop (Thinkpad T61, nvidia
> graphics card with binary drivers). I have a computer with intel GPU at
> work, and gmsh likes to crash there too (I was told it's a problem with
> the intel drivers). I think there used to be a command line switch
> '-mesa' (or something like this), but it's gone now.
>  Maybe I'm the only one with this problem and thus not worthy any
> attention. However, more people might have a similar problem and I'd
> like to kindly ask if there's a chance that someone will take a look at
> this. Otherwise I'm forced to abandon gmsh completely.
> 
>  Best regards,
> 
>       Martin Vymazal
> 

Hi Vymazal,

FWIW, I had problems with the open-source radeon driver when gmsh is
compiled with osmesa (off-screen rendering) on my thinkpad t43 notebook
which has an ati radeon x300 display card. Maybe you can try compiling
gmsh from source with the configure option --disable-osmesa and see if
it works for you.

Don't know if it's related or not.

Regards,
ST
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