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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 29 2011 - 09:57:18 CDT

Hi,
  The Quadro FX 1300 is a very old GPU, so it may not fully support
GLSL and/or may have a driver bug that was never fixed. Those GPUs
first came out in August 2004, so by now I don't think they are getting
any attention in newer versions of the NVIDIA drivers. If possible,
I would strongly recommend replacing this GPU with a newer model.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:55:25AM +0200, Federico Filomia wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm using a quadro fx1300 graphic card on a linux RHEL4 64bit workstation.
> When I run vmd-1.8.9 I can read this warning message in the terminal:
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 1719MB (85%)
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 1300/PCI/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(16) MDE CVA MTX PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Warning) GPU driver failed to compile shader:
> Warning) /home/linux/vmd-1.9/inst/lib/vmd/shaders/vmd
> Warning) This GPU/driver is buggy, or doesn't fully implement GLSL.
> Warning) Set environment variable VMDGLSLVERBOSE for more info.
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
>
> I tried different vmd versions and different nvidia original drivers
> (older to newer), but I can't fix this issue.
> This is very frustrating because I can't obtain nice images as with
> other systems with different quadro graphic cards.
> I also tried to search for a solution on internet but I was not able
> to find a solution .
> Is a card problem or is a driver problem?
> someone know if this error can be fixed?
> Thank you 

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