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From: Olya Kravchenko (okrav_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 16:38:39 CDT

John, is there any way to copy-paste from vmd console? Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V do not
work, and when I run glzinfo I have to many messages, I cannot type them all.
I tried to create log file but messages weren't copied there. Is there any
way to run glx such that the output is saved in log file?

What is XFree86 and why do I need to update it? Before I installed 1.8.2 I
just removed the folder with 1.8.1 version and nothing else, and then
downloaded and installed newer version.

Olga

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:19 pm, John Stone wrote:
> Olga,
> The source of your problem is indicated clearly by the VMD
> startup messages:
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
>
> That is the cause of your slow VMD performance. The result of that
> error is that your system is using the fallback OpenGL implementation
> which in this case is Mesa-based software rendering.
>
> What do you get if you run 'glxinfo' on that system?
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:21:22AM -0700, 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