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From: Mario Valle (mvalle_at_cscs.ch)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 22:50:54 CDT

Currently we are running TurboVNC + VirtualGL on our visualization
cluster, and this transport nicely also OpenGL.
Hope it helps
                               mario

John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> I suspect that neither XWIN32 or XDeep support OpenGL, and this is
> likely the root of your problem. You'll either need an X-Windows
> emulator that supports full OpenGL, or you'll have to run the normal
> Windows versions of VMD. You could also boot your system into Linux
> with a LiveCD and skip the problems with Windows altogether, if you
> prefer the full Unix experience.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:20:01PM -0400, Deepangi Pandit wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>> I have observed that unfortunately I cannot run VMD installed on a
>> Linux server using XWIN32 or XDeep Xservers on a workstation running
>> Windows 2000 . Is there a remedy for the problem?
>>
>> One could argue to use Windows version of VMD but I want to use Linux
>> version VMD and NAMD to submit my job the Linux server using my laptop
>> running on Windows 2000.
>>
>> Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> - Deepangi
>>
>
> 

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