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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 15:32:33 CDT

Hi,
  Try making a symbolic link from your libGL.so.1.0 to libGL.so.1.2
with "ln -s libGL.so.1.0 libGL.so.1.2" and see if that cures your
problem. If not, let us know and we'll help you get this fixed.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:48:37AM +0100, J. Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having problems getting vmd to work (1.7.1 and 1.8a21 opengl
> versions). I got the following error:
> Couldn't open required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2!
> Segmentation fault
>
> Starting vmd as "vmd -dispdev text" works fine. My system is:
> Athlon 1100Mhz with a GeForce2 MX card.
> Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586
> Kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise on an i686
>
> I installed the following nvidia drivers with rpm:
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.mdk82enterprise
>
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib
> ls -l *libG*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635014 Mar 9 05:04 libGL.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 8 07:36 libGL.so.1 ->
> libGLwrapper.so.0.1.6*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 2 07:34 libGLU.so.1 ->
> libGLU.so.1.3.401*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 763084 Feb 21 18:36
> libGLU.so.1.3.401*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26748 Mar 9 05:04 libGLw.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135572 Feb 21 18:36
> libGLwrapper.so.0.1.6*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 231184 Feb 21 18:36
> xxx.libGL.so.1.0.RPMSAVE*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 485040 Mar 9 05:06
> xxx.libGL.so.1.2.RPMSAVE*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2085616 Feb 21 18:36
> xxx.libGL.so.1.3.401.RPMSAVE*
>
> The xxx.*.RPMSAVE files where renamed by rpm when installing NVIDIA_GLX.
> Other openGL programs seems to run OK (gears, morph3d,...). Is this a
> problem with the configuration of my linux box or with vmd?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Rui Rodrigues
>
> --
> J. Rui Rodrigues
> Dep. de Quimica
> Fac. Ciências e Tecnologia da Univ. Coimbra
> Largo D. Dinis
> 3004-535 Coimbra
> Portugal 

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