[Kalzium] Molecular Viewer Bug

[Benoit Jacob]

Hi Johannes,

welcome to Kalzium and Avogadro development! I've been on vacation this 
week, just back. I hope you already met the others on IRC. If you're 
looking for a job in the 3D-part of Kalzium, then you're really more 
interested in contributing in (lib)Avogadro than in kalzium. Anyway the 
two teams overlap very much, so you'll see the same people in both 
projects.

I had a look at your screenshot, it's indeed a bug, and AFAICR we never 
saw it before.

Things to try:
1) in Kalzium, change the Style and Quality. Does it affect the bug?
2) load the same molecule file in Avogadro (the app). Does it work (you 
seem to say so but please just confirm) or can you see the bug there too? 
If it works in Avogadro, you can be assured that it will work in Kalzium 
4.1 automatically as it will use libavogadro directly.
3) disable all kind of 3D acceleration, to test whether it's a driver 
issue. One way to do that is to edit your xorg.conf 
to use the "vesa" driver. Another way, if you're using 
Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu, is to install the libmesa-swx11 package, which will 
install a software-only implementation of OpenGL.

Can you also tell us:
- OS/ distribution
- graphics hardware
- driver used (grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Thanks,
Benoit

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Johannes Simon wrote:

> When I load a molecule into the viewer, I only get some black sticks,
> and the molucule names/numbers. I attached a screenshot showing this bug
> (if it is one). You can rotate the view clicking on single atoms, so it
> only seems to be a rendering problem. I'm using the latest SVN copy of
> kde(pim)libs, kdesupport, kdebase, qt-copy (4.3.1) from Tuesday and
> openbabel-2.1.1 from the release tarball from the website. I also
> compiled and installed Avogadro from SVN as described here (except for
> the openbabel part, as the SVN version didn't compile):
> http://avogadro.sourceforge.net/wiki/Compiling. Installing the latest
> SVN copy of Avogadro didn't change anything, even though the GUI of Avo
> itself worked fine.
>
> Joh
>