[Gmsh] Linux Centos crashes when I zoom too fast

[Jayesh Badwaik]

and sorry to mention in the above post...
its actually X.org server which crashes.......


Cheers and Regards
Jayesh Vinay Badwaik
Electronics and Communication Engineering
VNIT, Nagpur
INDIA

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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics" -- Charles Hermite



On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jayesh Badwaik
<jayesh.badwaik90 at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi,
> yes.. my colleague had the same problem
> our observation was that... the crashes occur on machines which do not have
> a dedicated graphics card
> I had an nvidia graphics card and it never crashed on my computer.....
> the effect occurs irrespective of whether the computer is a desktop or a
> laptop
> and occurs only in linux... the crashes do not take place in windows......
>
> actually similar behavior was seen with paraview...... (crash on linux with
> no dedicated graphics, no crash on windows, no crash on linux with dedicated
> graphics)
> which led us to suspect that it might be an OpenGL problem
> but again I'm not sure..
>
> but we did not have access to the newer machines which has inbuilt graphics
> module (Core i range)
> so we are not sure about that.....
>
> Cheers and Regards
> Jayesh Vinay Badwaik
> Electronics and Communication Engineering
> VNIT, Nagpur
> INDIA
>
>
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> "We are servants rather than masters in mathematics" -- Charles Hermite
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Christophe Henrard <
> Christophe.Henrard at samtech.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> For a few weeks, I've been experiencing a weird problem. I'm running the
>> Linux version of GMSH (I tried with versions 2.4.2 and 2.5.0) on a Linux
>> Centos 5.6 release (via a virtual machine player VMWare). Whenever I open
>> any model, if I get close to the part and move, rotate or zoom, I get logged
>> out of Linux completely and I need to relog and reopen all my windows.
>>
>> To be more accurate, when I'm really close the the part, the only thing
>> that I can do is turning the wheel of the mouse to zoom out slowly but not
>> anything else. Then, once I'm far away, everything seems fine and I can do
>> anything (pan, rotate, zoom with the wheel or the middle button). But if I
>> zoom again too close, everything crashes and I get logged out.
>>
>> Is anybody having the same problem?
>> Kind regards,
>> Christophe
>>
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