VMD-L Mailing List

From: Jufang Shan (jufang.shan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 20:48:17 CST

Hi John,

I have VIA CHROME9 HC IGP graphics card but not sure whether I have the
latest driver.

I tried
 VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS=1
 export VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS
and it seems working now.

But I do find some errors in the VMD startup message:
libGL error: UNIX signal already caught!Warning) Simple graphics mode:
OpenGL 1.
0, no extensions
Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
Info) Features:
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.

Many thanks,
Jufang

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:35 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Sorry for the slow reply, your email slipped past me as I was in
> the process of flying back from South Africa on the day you sent it.
> The problem you're describing sounds to me like a video driver bug.
> What video card or chipset are you using? Have you installed the latest
> Linux drivers for your card? If you've already installed the latest
> driver, try doing this (csh syntax):
> setenv VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS 1
>
> or (sh, bash syntax)
> VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS=1
> export VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS
>
> If enabling those cures the problem, then it's almost certainly
> the result of a video driver bug of some sort. Send me the
> VMD startup message, in particular the OpenGL-related lines,
> and I may have further suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:13:32PM +0800, Jufang Shan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed VMD on novel SUSE 10 using package
> > vmd-1.8.6.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz by following the installation
> > instructions.
> >
> > And this is the configure options:
> > LINUX OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD SPACEBALL LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON
> > PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
> >
> > I can start and run VMD but can not display NewRibbons and New Cartoon. I
> > can display Licorice, Trace etc.
> >
> > Do you have any clue what is going wrong with my installation?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Jufang
>
> --
> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/>
> Fax: 217-244-6078
>