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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:27:58 -0400
From: Ian Chapman <ichapman AT videotron DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] Linux Mint 15
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Thanks Stuart,
     I am using the recommended driver from Nvidia.  It's simple to do 
click system setting then drivers.  I was thinking about junking it and 
going to the default open source driver so you have saved me the 
bother.  That was the only way I could get my 1600:900 monitor out of 
3:4 aspect ratio.  The default pcb in Mint15 is PCB version 20110918 and 
that's the latest version in geda-project.org.  I'll give it a try on my 
Acer Aspire laptop.
DJ
     I can find the tarball but what and where is the git version?   Ian.

On 13-07-15 07:38 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Gschem and PCB run just fine on my old laptop (Fedora Core 13 with
> stock Gnome desktop).  I installed the Nvidia drivers on that machine
> some time ago.  Haven't had a problem.
>
> However, I recently built a new Fedora Core 19 system. Cinnamon
> desktop.  I did not install the Nvidia drivers, so I am using
> whatever libre drivers the installer decided to use (nouveau?).
> Gschem runs fine, but PCB tends to do odd, buggy things graphically.
> Sometimes it even seems to lock up.  Overall (outside of PCB), the
> graphics response is jerkey.
>
> Since I wasn't interested in fiddling around with my graphics set up,
> I went back to the laptop for gschem/pcb.  However, I suspect two
> things might be at fault:
>
> 1.  Bad open-source video driver.  Therefore, install whatever
> proprietary drivers are appropriate for your video chipset.
>
> 2.  My reading suggests that Cinnamon is still somewhat buggy.  I
> don't know if that's an orthogonal issue to the PCB problems, or
> contributes to it.
>
> In any event, I suggest installing the proprietary video drivers on
> your machine.
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Ian Chapman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I've updated to Mint 15-64-cinnamon and gschem looks okay at first 
>> glance. PCB looks like a disaster, all I get after clicking foo.fp is 
>> a white screen and everything is so so slow. Mint 13 was not as good 
>> as what I used back in 2008 in fact my old layouts showed lots of 
>> rats so I'd be interested to hear what others have experienced.  What 
>> is a good distro to use for PCB?  Possibly this is a Nvidia video or 
>> gnome issue.  Ian.
>>
>