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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 18:14:05 CDT

What Linux video driver are you running on the laptop? What video
chipset does the laptop have?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:20:06PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'm running VMD on RedHat Enterprise Linux (32-bit Intel). I also have
> VMD installed on my laptop, Windows XP where the error doesn't occur.
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:03 PM
> To: Ryan Golhar
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: GLXBadLargeRequest
>
>
>
> Hi,
> The GLXBadLargeRequest error usually occurs when you're
> remotely displaying a 64-bit VMD session to a 32-bit implementation of
> OpenGL, at least in my experience. I've seen it occur on SGI systems
> before under certain rare circumstances as well, but it is not the
> normal case. What type of machine are you running VMD on, and are you
> displaying to the same machine or to a different machine?
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:52:35PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running VMD and when trying to look at either a pdb or dcd file
> > (after loading the corresponding psf) I receive multiple instances of
>
> > the message "GLXBadLargeRequest". The problem is not based on the
> > size of the file and I can load the pdb file on my laptop version of
> > VMD without a problem. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----
> > Ryan Golhar
> > Computational Biologist
> > The Informatics Institute at
> > The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
> >
> > Phone: 973-972-5034
> > Fax: 973-972-7412
> > Email: golharam_at_umdnj.edu
>
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>
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