Hello.

I've been playing a bit with the Kicad sources yesterday but something
wasn't very clear to me: does the 3D visualization use the hardware
acceleration? I do have it on my machine (NVidia) but Kicad doesn't seen
to be using it.

[]s

Adilson.

Adilson Oliveira wrote:

Hello.

I've been playing a bit with the Kicad sources yesterday but something
wasn't very clear to me: does the 3D visualization use the hardware
acceleration? I do have it on my machine (NVidia) but Kicad doesn't seen
to be using it.

Hello.

We had the same problem.
The linux version of kicad is completely statical. Thats why its so heavy. We compiled from the sources and
dinamic link it and then it started to work a lot lot lot better.
We have some Debian Sarge i386 (Stable) packages of kicad. The binaries are in one package, the libs in other, the pdfs
in other and the samples in other. All of them sum 54Megs, half the package from internet. Six megs without the PDFs!
You can download the deb packages from


Saludos, Juan Pablo.

[]s

Adilson.

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JPD Borgna wrote:

Hello.

We had the same problem.
The linux version of kicad is completely statical. Thats why its so
heavy. We compiled from the sources and
dinamic link it and then it started to work a lot lot lot better.
We have some Debian Sarge i386 (Stable) packages of kicad. The binaries
are in one package, the libs in other, the pdfs
in other and the samples in other. All of them sum 54Megs, half the
package from internet. Six megs without the PDFs!
You can download the deb packages from

Hello Juan.

Nice move. I'll check it out later.
I actually saw it was staticaly linking and tried to compile Kicad
yesterday night on my Mandrake machine with no luck due the way wxwidget
libs are used I believe but I didn't have much time to check it out in
details.

Gracias

Adilson.

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Adilson Oliveira wrote:

JPD Borgna wrote:

  

Hello.

We had the same problem.
The linux version of kicad is completely statical. Thats why its so
heavy. We compiled from the sources and
dinamic link it and then it started to work a lot lot lot better.
We have some Debian Sarge i386 (Stable) packages of kicad. The binaries
are in one package, the libs in other, the pdfs
in other and the samples in other. All of them sum 54Megs, half the
package from internet. Six megs without the PDFs!
You can download the deb packages from

    

Hello Juan.

Nice move. I'll check it out later.
I actually saw it was staticaly linking and tried to compile Kicad
yesterday night on my Mandrake machine with no luck due the way wxwidget
libs are used I believe but I didn't have much time to check it out in
details.

  

Its a whole day job... spcecially on debian where the stable wxWidgets are different of the ones that kicad needs...

Gracias

  

De nada.

Adilson.


  

Saludos, Juan Pablo.

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Hello,

You must set colour depth to 24 or 32 bits.

Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

and change the line
DefaultDepth 24

That's all.

Pedro.



Ya está resuelto: se necesita profundidad de color de 24 o 32 bits en Linux.
Como estoy ahora con una Debian Knoppix, no había cambiado la resolución de
16 a 24 bits.

Esta es la respuesta de Jean-Pierre Charras:

"Sous Linux, la visualisation 3D ne semble marcher que si la carte graphique
est en 24 ou 32 bits par pixels (mode "true colors").
En mode 16 bits, cela ne marche pas.
Je pense que c'est un problème de wxWidgets."

Solución: ()

tu_máquina:~# xdpyinfo | grep "depth of root"
depth of root window: 24 planes

Si en este punto se encuentra con un valor bajo los 24, se deberá cambiar,
para el caso de la mayoría de las distribuciones de GNU/Linux que utilizan
XFree, bastara con:

Editar el archivo /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, encontrar y modificar Section
"Screen", simplemente se pondrá el valor

DefaultDepth 24
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posiblemente tengas que reiniciar.
En mi archivo, en vez de DefaultDepth viene DefaultDepth Color, pero es igual.

Saludos,

Pedro.

Pedro Martn del Valle wrote:

Hello,
You must set colour depth to 24 or 32 bits.
Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
and change the line
DefaultDepth 24
That's all.

I wondered why I did not have a 3D problem - I checked my Xorg.conf and my default depth is already set to 24 - aha!

Ian

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