strange behaviour of ecce builder
Clicked A Few Times
9:34:55 AM PDT - Tue, Oct 22nd 2013
Dear all,

I recently installed ecce 7.0, but unfortunately the builder behaves strangely. When I open the builder from the gateway, the viewer area of the builder has a grey colour. I have not used ecce before so this might be a normal behaviour.

What does not seem to be a normal behaviour is what happens when I try to add an atom to the viewer area. I can see the atom on a black background for about a second, but then the viewer area switches quickly back to being grey as it was right after I started the builder. This behaviour makes it impossible to work, and I would therefore appreciate very much if someone could help me finding a solution to the problem.

(I would have liked to upload a screenshot of the builder window to better explain the problem, but I did not find out how to do that)

Gets Around
10:43:35 PM PDT - Wed, Oct 23rd 2013
Tfjermestad,
I can't reproduce your behaviour using ECCE 7.0.

1. What kind of graphics set up are using? Nvidia, Intel or AMD? What about the driver and version? nvidia drivers have a way of behaving erratically.
2. What linux distribution and version are you using?
3. Did you install the pre-built ECCE binary or did you compile on your own?

Clicked A Few Times
2:21:58 AM PDT - Thu, Oct 31st 2013
Ohlincha,

Thanks for your reply.

The answers to your questions are as follows:

1. The graphic card is AMD, the driver is fglrx_pci. The output of the command "sudo lshw -c video" is as follows:

  • -display 
      description: VGA compatible controller

      product: Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]

      vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)

      physical id: 0

      bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

      version: 00

      width: 64 bits

      clock: 33MHz

      capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

      configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0

      resources: irq:50 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:cfee0000-cfefffff ioport:2000(size=256) memory:cfe00000-cfe1ffff


2. My Linux version is Ubuntu 12.04
3. I installed a pre-built ECCE binary

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gets Around
6:48:48 PM PST - Sun, Nov 3rd 2013
I think the first course of action is to compile ECCE on your machine. I've had mixed success when installing the pre-built binary of people's ubuntu machines (works fine on debian though), but we've had a 100% success rate when compiling.

Luckily, while it's somewhat time consuming, compiling ECCE is very simple. Have a look at e.g. [1]

Let me know if you have problems compiling.


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