From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 15:25:45 CDT

Did you update your XFREE86 installation?

It appears that the dri extension is not being loaded or not available to
other programs.

Brian

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Olya Kravchenko wrote:

> Hi John! Here is what I have on the console window:
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs 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)
> vmd >
>
> Olga
>
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 07:01 am, John Stone wrote:
> > Hi Olga,
> > Can you send me the text that VMD prints in your text console when it
> > starts up? (The OpenGL messages are what I'm specifically interested in).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:35:36PM -0700, Olya Kravchenko wrote:
> > > Hi everyone! I had just upgraded to 1.8.2 version of vmd and it works
> > > extremely slow, even though 1.8.1 worked perfectly well. Can someone tell
> > > me what might be a possible reason for that and what can I do to make it
> > > work faster?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Olga
>

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