The chimera daily build has workarounds for bugs in some of the newer Linux distributions, so you should try the daily build first. Linux's OpenGL drivers, other than those directly from ATI and NVidia, are undergoing rapid evolution right now to improve performance, and that is especially true for the Intel drivers. Unfortunately, the changes affect many packages, i.e., the X server, Mesa, libdri, and others, so easiest solution for most people is to switch which Linux distribution they are using until they find one that works. We have not done much testing of Linux on computers with motherboard graphics. Fedora 10 should work. I've heard that Unbuntu 9.04 does not work (will be investigating that soon), but Ubuntu 8.10 should work. If you find a good distribution for your computer, please let us know. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Dmytro Kovalskyy wrote:
Hi there,
I experience porblems with chimera running on Lenovo X60t in Linux. graphics: intel GM945
I have two installations on the notebook: WinXP and Linux (ALT Linux 4.1.1).
Chimera's benchmark under Windows returns preety nice values (see http://socrates2.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/benchmarks, pre-pre last line, Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet 6363WDP). However under linux I can not get even something reasonable to post Surf - 1 Mesh - 26 Contouring 149 Solid 1 Recoloring 5
Is it natural or due to some bugs in Linux drivers/X/kernel?
Thanks in advance
Dima