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Re: IDL on FreeBSD [message #28168 is a reply to message #28092]

Wed, 21 November 2001 07:30

lovedale27
Messages: 7
Registered: November 2001

Junior Member

Hello All,

I got my problems resolved thanks to your help, Randall in particular.
The first problem with the display was resolved with the

"device, retain=2"

in the IDL's preference menu.

The second with the online help was resolved with this command:

"sysctl -w kern.fallback_elf_brand=3"

For the moment IDL works very well indeed. Once thanks to all those who replied.

Karthik

Randall Skelton <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.33.0111201630500.23474-100000@mulligan.atm.ox.ac.uk>...
> First, I don't think comp.lang.idl is actually a group you should post
> to... when they say 'idl' they mean CORBA or something like that.
>
> I have had IDL 5.3 working on FreeBSD 4.4 and I don't recall there being
> any show stopping bugs. The failure to refresh the graphics window is an
> X quirk that can show up on almost any unix system. If I recall
> correctly, the fix is:
>
> device, retain=2
>
> There have been a few people asking questions about FreeBSD and IDL in the
> past so it may be worth checking the archives:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FreeBSD+IDL&hl=en
>
> Given that I haven't bothered to upgrade to 5.5, I can't say much about
> the help other than I know 5.3 help works. IDL help in 5.3 is spawned by
> a separate shell script which executes an independent binary
> $IDL_PATH/bin/bin.linux/idlhelp. If you haven't already checked, check
> that you have install all the required shared libraries into your linux
> compatibility linking libraries in /compat/linux. However, failing to
> include linked libraries usually results in segfaults not "No
> selection..." errors so I doubt this is it.
>
> For info on FreeBSD linux compatibility see:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/li nuxemu.html
>
> If/when you figure this out, please post to the idl.pvwave newsgroup.
>
>
> Good luck,
> Randall
>
> On 20 Nov 2001, Karthikayan B. wrote:
>
>> I wonder if anyone had any success installing IDL on FreeBSD.
>> The system:
>>
>> IBM T20 running FreeBSD 4.4
>> Display card : S3 model graphics accelerator
>> IDL Version : 5.5
>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> a) A displayed image gets eaten up if moved from one part of the
>> screen to another. In other words, when you move an image it is not
>> refreshed. So if you move the image to the centre of the screen those
>> portions that were under other windows are just blank spaces.
>>
>> b) I can not get the online help to work. It brings up an error
>> message saying that "No selection is avaliable. Unable to execute the
>> command"
>>
>> Can any one offfer help. Thanks.
>> -BK
>>

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		Re: IDL on FreeBSD By: lovedale27 on Sat, 24 November 2001 16:44
		Re: IDL on FreeBSD By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 20 November 2001 09:00
		Re: IDL on FreeBSD By: lovedale27 on Wed, 21 November 2001 07:13
		Re: IDL on FreeBSD By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 20 November 2001 08:57
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