From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 00:30:13 CDT

Huaer,
  Yes, I'd be suspicious of the Linux video driver. What video card
does your machine use?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:40:31PM -0400, Huaer XC wrote:
> Hi, I also got a very bad result of vmd1.83 running in my Mandrake
> 10.0 Linux. My problem is that everytime I ran vmd, three panels did
> show up, but the screen got frozen so that I had to restart my
> computer. VMD works very well with Win-XP in the same PC, so I guess
> it should not be the problems of the Video card. Is there anything I
> can do to fix this problem? Thanks in advance..
> Huaer
>
> On Apr 10, 2005 9:43 AM, matteo.pennestri_at_virgilio.it
> <matteo.pennestri_at_virgilio.it> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have just installed vmd 1.8.3 on linux mandrake 10.0 but when I type "vmd"
> > only the vmd console is displayed. No "vmd 1.8.3 OpenGL Display" and no
> > "VMD MAIN" is displayed.
> > Is there something that I have to do to display it?
> >
> > Many thanks.....
> > Matteo.
> >
> >

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