From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 15:35:12 CDT

Peter,
  Yes, they do limit your graphics capability. Does your VMD run ok
without them? Or does it die? If you can run without them, that's
what you want to do. If not, then we can find a more minimalistic
set of options to cut back just the feature(s) that cause you trouble.

I've found that on a colleague's ATI-based laptop, just disabling one
OpenGL feature will make VMD run just fine on his ATI chip /w Linux.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:05:04PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote:
> Thank's John, that worked and yes, I'm using an ATI Mobility Fire GL T2 graphics card.
> Will these commands limit my graphics capacity in VMD?
>
> /Peter
>
>
> Try doing this:
> vmd -dispdev text
>
> If that works, then try doing this:
> setenv VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS 1
> vmd
>
> If that works, then I'm guessing you're probably using an ATI video card right?
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:36:50PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote:
> > Dear list-readers,
> >
> > I just upgraded to VMD 1.8.3 (from 1.8.2) on my Linux machine. I ran:
> > 'configure LINUX' followed by 'make install'. The installation seems to work smoothly but when I start VMD the console window starts and shuts down a millisecond later.
> > Any suggestions on what I've done wrong are welcome.
> > Version 1.8.2 worked without these problems.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Peter
> >
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