From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 14:33:57 CDT

Dear Cesar,
  I took a shot at building Chromium from their current CVS today but
no dice. Are you running a CVS build of Chromium or are you using one
of their previously released alpha/beta versions?

  John

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:21:54PM +0000, Cesar Delgado wrote:
> John,
>
> The change in the shell script didn't dop anything. The crappfaker keeps
> terminating, and VMD runs withouth Chromium. It would be great of you could
>
> give it a try and let me know. I'm also goingto try to upgrade from the CVS
>
> and see how that goes.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> -Cesar
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> To: Cesar Delgado <beettlle_at_hotmail.com>
> CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Chromium
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:15:00 -0500
>
> Dear Cesar,
> It could be that the vmd startup script is preventing the chromium
> startup scripts from doing what they are supposed to. You might try
> changing the VMD startup script to set any environment variables that
> Chromium needs and see if you get any different behavior. Does the
> startup code in Chromium manipulate LD_LIBRARY_PATH or other environment
> variables? You might try changing the first line of the vmd startup script
> so it reads:
> #!/bin/csh -f
>
> instead of the default which is usually
> #!/bin/csh
>
> See if that changes the behavior at all, you might be having an
> interaction with your shell rc files...
> Let me know if those make any difference.
> If not, I can probably try building Chromium here next week and see
> if I can get it running locally.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:07:40PM +0000, Cesar Delgado wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > That is part of the problem. I don't see any error. I setup the python
> > scritp to run vmd, run the crservers and the crappfaker and vmd comes up
> on
> > the master node and nothing more. Chromium gives me no error, and the
> > crappfaker exits normaly but the crservers and the mothership stay-put.
> > That's why I'm confused.
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> >
> > -Cesar
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> > To: Cesar Delgado <beettlle_at_hotmail.com>
> > CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Chromium
> > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:48:34 -0500
> >
> > Dear Cesar,
> > I haven't yet tried to run VMD with Chromium, but last I checked
> > it was still missing some OpenGL calls that VMD needs in order to run
> > correctly. I saw Brian Paul at Siggraph last week and he indicated that
> > most of the things I needed were there now, and that they'd fixed a bunch
> > of things that made it harder than it should have been for us to support
> > WireGL systems in VMD, but I will probably need to setup a chromium test
> > box (or boxes rather) here in order to get VMD running on it.
> >
> > Do you get specific errors from Chromium when you attempt to run VMD
> > now? If you can tell me what OpenGL calls it fails on, that would
> > help significantly. WireGL used to print errors whenever it ran into
> > unsupported OpenGL calls, I assume that Chromium has similar
> functionality.
> > If you can send me any errors you get from Chromium or VMD, I can see
> what
> > would be required to workaround the problem(s) you've run into.
> >
> > If you are anxious, you might try running the previous revs of VMD
> > with WireGL instead of Chromium (though Chromium is obviously going
> > to be a much a more capable system when its finished).
> > VMD 1.7 and 1.7.1 should both work ok for WireGL if you
> > have a WireGL system setup, you have to set an environment variable
> > "VMDWIREGL" so that VMD knows not to use some OpenGL commands that
> > will cause WireGL to abort due to lack of complete OpenGL support.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:16:31PM +0000, Cesar Delgado wrote:
> > > I am trying to get VMD to run through Chromium on to a tiled display.
> I
> > > have not been successful and was wondering if anyone else has been able
> > to.
> > >
> > > If someone has I would greatly apreceate if they could give me some
> > > pointers.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much,
> > >
> > > -Cesar Delgado
> > >
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