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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 13:25:32 CST

Dear Margaret,
 There are three things you'll want to do to make VMD run well on
your laptop:
  1) make sure you have the NVidia GeForce drivers installed on your
     system, and that they are working properly. This is important in
     order to take advantage of the hardware acceleration your GeForce2Go
     chips provide.

  2) Uninstall the "Mesa" version of VMD you had installed, and install the
     "DRI" or "OpenGL" version of VMD. The Mesa version of VMD does not
     take advantage of hardware acceleration, so you want to run the other
     version to get the best performance from your machine.

  3) In order to get the VMD graphics window to appear in the correct place
     on your screen, you will want to edit the /usr/local/bin/vmd startup
     script, and edit the "setenv VMDSCRPOS" and "setenv VMDSCRSIZE" lines
     appropriately, these control the start position and size of the VMD
     graphics window..

Out of curiosity, what kind of laptop is it? We like to keep track of
what equipment people are using, just to have an idea what's popular with
our users.

Let us know if you have any other questions etc.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:45:26AM -0800, Margaret Cheung wrote:
> Dear VMD developers,
>
> I'd like to install vmd on my laptop (video card: Nvidia Geforce 2 generic
> Go, XGA TFT screen) with RH 7.2. I downloaded VMD1.7.1 LINUX Mesa and
> tryed to install it. After I launched "vmd", the display screen (the one
> with rotating axes) only appeared the lower left part of the total area.
> I can't even resize nor move that frame. Please help. Thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Margaret S. Cheung
> Biophysics Program
> Physics Department 0319
> University of California, San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Drive,
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0319
> http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~cheung 

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