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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 21 2011 - 08:57:50 CDT

Hi,
  Is it possible that your machine has a bad video driver?
Did your system get updated since you installed VMD?
These sorts of things often cause such problems.
What happens when you run this command?:
  glxinfo

Does VMD run if you run it in text mode, like this?:
  vmd -dispdev text

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:21:17PM +0200, kaustubh joshi wrote:
> I have VMD preinstalled on my ubuntu 8.10
> The system is administrator governed.
>
> I was able to use VMD properly earlier. But yesterday I logged out and
> logged in again the system.
> Since then, I am not able to launch VMD.
> when I write command vmd
> what all happens is:
> some number like:
> [1] 20308
> is printed on the terminal.
> I see a view of vmd window which immediately disappears.
> I asked the administrator , but he is kind of busy.
> Can some body help me sort it out and let vmd again begin!
>
> K 

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