Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (491 mails)

[Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Dr J Pelan wrote:

> > Matlab is Student Version Release 13
> > Maple is Maple 9 Student Edition on CD
> 
> One factor is that they are dependent on fairly old glibc implementations
> which enables them to run on RH 7.1 systems from yesteryear. This can lead
> to occasional problems on more recent platforms.

It can't be glibc.  Once this thread started I did some testing, and both
installation and use of Matlab R13 SP1 and Maple 9 worked without problems
there.  No, they're not the student version.  Thus the problems are AMD64-
specific - I'll be starting tests early next week for that.

> That said, Matlab R13sp1 is apparently working here on SuSE 9.1 (AMD64)
> although I haven't used the JVM environment and nor do I care to. The
> official line from Mathworks of course is that there is no native support
> for any version of Matlab on the AMD64 platform. It is always worth
> letting them know that you think there should be.

The JVM environment should work too, though it gets confused by the 
keymapping.  The following two lines in .Xmodmap solved the problem
for matlab:
keycode 64 = Meta_L
keycode 0x6D =  Multi_key

I have a similar problem with xmaple, haven't had time to find the
magical xmodmap-formula yet.  But the keyboard lockups in maple and
matlab looks to me to be neither AMD64-specific or glibc-caused, they
should be solvable with xmodmap.

Bjørn
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