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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_vitae.cmm.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 09:12:33 CST

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Mario Valle wrote:

MV> I just tried VMD 1.8.3 on my new workstation (linux suse 10.0), but setting rendermode to
MV> GLSL produces a really funny result for CPK representation: phsychedelic lighting, no
MV> spheres and normals reversed for cylinders.
MV> I suspect that everything starts from the following startup warnings:
MV>
MV>
MV> Info) Multithreading available, 4 CPUs detected.
MV> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 6800 GS/PCI/SSE2
MV> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) RN MDE CVA NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
MV> Info) OpenGL fragment shader compilation log:
MV> Info) (160) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
MV> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
MV> Info) OpenGL shader linkage log:
MV> Info) Fragment info
MV> Info) -------------
MV> Info) (160) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
MV> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
MV> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
MV> Info) OpenGL fragment shader compilation log:
MV> Info) (194) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
MV> Info) OpenGL shader linkage log:
MV> Info) Fragment info
MV> Info) -------------
MV> Info) (194) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
MV> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
MV>
MV> My fault or VMD fault? I tried also 1.8.4b11 but same error.

neither. this is a problem of the nvidia driver.
you have to go back to version 1.0-7676 or so
and it will work again.

ciao,
   axel.

MV>
MV> Thanks for the help!
MV> mario
MV>
MV> 

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