rasmol is broken with nvidia hardware

[Richard Evans]

Binary package hint: rasmol

It seems the rasmol binary is broken in Intrepid (8.10) on Nvidia hardware (have tried on 7300GS, 8300 integrated, and 9600GT). The objects have visual artifacts and the coordinate system is off centre for zooming and rotation. Specifically I have tried this with xyz format files, not sure about others.

[Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0)]

This is a screenshot of rasmol-classic running on my machine (jaunty), which has an nvidia 8500gt graphics card. The window is in fact semi-transparent. The white and orange tinting that the molecule has on the right hand side, is the window behind (firefox displaying www.ubuntu.com). It is also seen that the molecule is drawn with dots.

[Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0)]

This is a screenshot of rasmol-gtk running on the same machine as above. It can be seen that the molecule is split, and when rotating, the two halves rotate separately. It appears to be some kind of viewport/wrapping problem. The molecule also appears "dotted".

[Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0)]

Both rasmol-classic and -gtk seem to work flawlessly on my Dell mini 12 (running jaunty), which doesn't even have a working X-driver (uses the vesa driver).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rasmol - 2.7.4.2-4

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rasmol (2.7.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Increase debhelper compat to 7, build-dep on the same
  * rules: Rewrite and simplify using dh. Allow building GTK and
    X11 versions separately for testing
  * Add a bash_completion file
  * Merge patch insvn/gtk-shortcuts: Add various keyboard shortcuts
    to the GTK interface
  * Merge insvn/fileopen:
    - Add support for opening more than one file from the command
      line. (closes: #498261)
    - Fix reading files from stdin with '-' arg.
  * Merge insvn/switches:
    - Fix crashing of the GTK version when trying to output errors
      before initialising GUI (closes: #498261)
    - Accept options prefixed either with a single or double dash.
    - New command line options:
        -colour / color: Set default colour of a new molecule.
        -wireframe, -backbone, -sticks, -spacefill, -spheres, -ballstick,
            -ribbons, -strands, -cartoons: Set default representation
            of a new molecule.
    - New command line options in GTK version:
        -prompt, -noprompt, -scrolls, -noscrolls, -menus, -nomenus,
        -fullscreen: Set ui elements present after startup.
  * Merge insvn/vte-text-output: Write all text output through
    WriteChar() and WriteString().
  * Use direct VTE feeding with text output in GTK version,
    instead of PTYs
  * Make Delete key work and ignore unhandled terminal escape sequences.
  * Fixed debian/watch file, thanks to Daniel Leidert (closes: #520524)
  * Add an application icon to the GTK version
  * Fix recent files support in GTK version
  * Show file name in title, if the file does not have a PDB code
  * rasmol.h: Use C99 exact-width ints in some typedefs. Closes LP: #349585
  * Imakefile: Build with -Wall
  * Fix the Exec field in .desktop files to correctly handle multi-argument
    binaries, also add chemical/x-xyz mime-type

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