[Gmsh] Am I the only one?

[Umut Tabak]

Martin Vymazal wrote:
> Dear gmsh developers,
>
>  as I wrote to the mailing list about a week ago, I have serious 
> problems with the latest version of gmsh. When I start it and try to 
> open any *.geo file, my cpu load goes to 100% and the main window of 
> gmsh is simply plain white. Gmsh doesn't react to any user input. When 
> I posted an email about this to the mailing list last week, it was 
> simply ignored. I noticed that there's a new stable version of gmsh as 
> of August 22. The problem persists on my laptop (Thinkpad T61, nvidia 
> graphics card with binary drivers). I have a computer with intel GPU 
> at work, and gmsh likes to crash there too (I was told it's a problem 
> with the intel drivers). I think there used to be a command line 
> switch '-mesa' (or something like this), but it's gone now.
>  Maybe I'm the only one with this problem and thus not worthy any 
> attention. However, more people might have a similar problem and I'd 
> like to kindly ask if there's a chance that someone will take a look 
> at this. Otherwise I'm forced to abandon gmsh completely.
>
>  
The latest stable release of yesterday, seemed to work without problems 
on my laptop btw you let me know that there is a new version.
Also version 2.3 was working without problems. Just as a follow up to 
your question, my system is HPCompaq6710b, xubuntu 9.04 x86_64.