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 -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no