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Re: Problem with new Mathematica Installation on Linux

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg73159] Re: Problem with new Mathematica Installation on Linux
• From: "shredder" <yinyin.wang at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:21:52 -0500 (EST)
• References: <eq1i7t$2rf$1@smc.vnet.net><eq4g6b$dnq$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 2æ??4æ?¥, ä¸?å??6æ?¶31å??, Francois LE COAT <lec... at atari.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> shredderwrote :
>
> > I newly installed Mathematica 5.2 on my Linux box. It's a Ubuntu 6.10
> > with IBM Thinkpad T60 with SXGA+ 14" monitor.
>
> > It installed correctly and I can start it. But the display is garbaged
> > with other window as background. I don't know what's wrong with this.
> > The screen is captured at:
>
> >http://picasaweb.google.com/yinyin.wang/Mathematica/photo#50269724966...
>
> > I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
>
> I have the exact same problem with Mathematica 5.2 installed under
> Mandriva 2007.0, and native ATI graphic drivers for my Radeon X600
> card, on my Vaio laptop.

So maybe the problem is with the ATI graphics driver.
Have you tried other drivers, for example the one included in Xorg?

>
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- François LE COAT
> Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)http://eureka.atari.org/