Re: [Update REQ 5695]: geomview

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> I have just installed the sgi version of geomview 1.5 on 
> an Indigo2 running IRIX 5.3 and the
> program does not work.  The symptoms are that the cursor cannot be used
> to control the geometry (zoom, rotate, etc.) and that the control panels
> react extremely slow to the mouse.  For example, there is a considerable
> time lag between placing the cursor over a button and seeing the button
> react.  In addition the redrawing of windows is quite slow.

Very strange.  This sounds exactly like the behavior of geomview
when it is run across the network.  Try making sure that you're
running geomview locally.  If that doesn't solve the problem, you
could try getting
ftp://ftp.geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/Geomview-irix5.tar.gz.  This is
a set of binaries compiled for irix5 (the others are irix4
binaries running in compatiblity mode).

> Since I am writing, I would like to ask one secondary question.  How can 
> I modify the stereo command so that it works with the liquid crystal 
> shutters?  On my previous installation on the Crimson that was one thing
> which did not work.  The call to present by liquid crystal shutters seemed
> to call the wrong sync program and would cause quite a mess.

What kind of liquid crystal setup do you have and what kind of
problems are you experiencing?  The stereo setup that we use at
the center consists of a special monitor with an LCD shutter and
polarized glasses.  The two images are drawn seperated vertically
and then the screen is switched to stereo mode where the top half
of the screen is overlaid over the bottom.  If this how your
setup works?

-- 
Tim Rowley  --  trowley at geom.umn.edu  --  "Do or do not, there is no try."