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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 08:27:31 CDT

On 7/20/06, Olaf Lenz <olenz_at_fias.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
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> Hello!

hi olaf,

[...]

> ... what's going wrong here? I thought, that Mesa would implement the
> GLX extensions? Is this a problem of the Linux installation
> (unfortunately I have no root access), or of the VMD installation?

this is most likely a problem of the installation. please make sure that
the x-configuration file ( /etc/X11/XF86Config, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4,
or /etc/X11/xorg.conf ) contains:

Load "glx"

in the "Module" section.

regards,
     axel.

> Cheers
> Olaf
> 

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