[Chimera-users] distance not shown

[Mingfeng Yang]

Eric Pettersen wrote:
> Hi Mingfeng,
>     ATI has come out with a new driver version for your card:  
> 8.21.7.  Could you try that version and see if things start working?  
> Let me know.  Thanks!
>
> --Eric
>
Hi, Eric,

I just updated the driver to 8.21.7, and it can't work out. :( 
Meanwhile, I tried the radeon driver included in Xorg, and the distance 
can be displayed. So, yes, it's the driver's fault.

Mingfeng

> On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
>
>> Hi, Eric,
>>
>> I am using ATI FireGL 8800 graphics card with driver fglrx-8.20.8.  
>> The 2D label does work. Labeling an atom or residue showed nothing. 
>> Change font size and style didn't solve the problem.
>> I remember this feature works perfectly in the previous versions 
>> (probably before build 1.6???) on this same machine.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mingfeng
>>
>>
>> Eric Pettersen wrote:
>>> Hi Mingfeng,
>>> You are the second person to report this behavior -- the other 
>>> person was also on Linux.  Can you tell me what graphics cards you 
>>> have and what driver version?  Do regular atom labels show up?  Do 
>>> 2D labels work (Tools->Utilities->2D Labels)?  Can you check your 
>>> Background preferences and make sure the default font size is > 0 
>>> and try changing the font style to see if that makes any difference?
>>>
>>> --Eric
>>>
>>>                         Eric Pettersen
>>>
>>>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>>>
>>>                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>
>>>
>>>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am using Chimera build 1.2186 on Gentoo linux. Strangely, when 
>>>> the distance  between two atoms is shown by the command "distance", 
>>>> the number is no longer displayed along the yellow dashed line.  
>>>> Did the developers removed this function? Or is it a bug?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mingfeng
>>>>
>>>>
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