From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 10 2009 - 10:06:53 CDT

Stefano,
  What do you get from running these commands:
uname -a
  and
cat /etc/issue

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 04:04:09PM +0100, Stefano Meliga wrote:
> I'm running on Linux (Red Hat).
>
> LINUX OpenGL, CUDA (Linux (32-bit, RHEL4 or later) with CUDA)
>
> Honestly I'm not sure about OpenGL, CUDA, RHEL4 stuff.
> The machine is quite old then I guess it's 32-bit.
>
> Shall I re-try installing another binary?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefano
>
> John Stone ha scritto:
> >Stefano,
> > What platform are you running on, and which beta VMD 1.8.7 beta 5
> >binary did you install? There definitely _is_ a NewCartoon representation,
> >but if you do not see it in the menu, that may indicate some problem with
> >incompatibility of the VMD binary and your C/C++ standard libraries.
> >If you can provide more information that will be very helpful.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Stefano Meliga wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I've just installed VMD1.8.7beta5 and I am visualising my protein from
> >>its pdb.
> >>I'd like to use NewCartoon but it is not among the Drawing Methods.
> >>
> >>Is this issue related to the installation or VMD version?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Stefano
> >>
> >>
> >
> >

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