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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 09:49:14 CST

Patrick,
  This line you're seeing during VMD startup indicates that you're
getting NO OpenGL acceleration, that is likely the source of your problem:
  Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

What X server and video board are you using?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:22:52PM +0100, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I experience the same problem, 1.8.2 much slower than 1.8.1 on
> my Mandrake 9.2 machine.
> Here is the info from VMD:
>
> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 1 CPU detected.
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
> Info) Features: STENCIL RN MTX TCM
> Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), 3-D (0x0x0), Multitexture (6)
>
> Hope this can help,
> Bye,
>
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