VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 21:03:37 CDT

Hi,
  Your included VMD startup messages indicate to me that your new system
doesn't have the NVIDIA drivers installed (or at least not properly).
Please download and (re)install the latest NVIDIA drivers, that
should cure your problem.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:38:49AM +0900, Roland Schmucki wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Before my workstation has broken (RedHat 9.0), I was using VMD 1.8.5
> without any troubles and the graphical performance was very good.
> After replacement of the whole computer (not a new one though, similar
> processor, same amount of RAM, it contains another video card, nVidia
> NV34 GeForceFX5500, newer OS, Fedora Core 6) the performance of VMD is
> too slow.
> I've already checked the VMD mailing list about this matter
> (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/8703.html).
> Considering all that, should I use the video card of the broken computer
> instead?
>
> Does anybody know what I should do to solve this problem?
>
> Thank you very much for your advice and suggestions.
>
> Roland
>
>
> PS: Here is the "vmd console"-output after starting up VMD:
>
> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.6 (April 6, 2007)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 1783MB (88%)
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), Multitexture (8) 

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