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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 08:44:57 CST

Hi,
  Have you tried updating your ATI driver, this definitely sounds
like some sort of new driver bug I haven't seen previously. You might
try either a newer or older driver version and see if that affects the
behavior you're experiencing. Do any other OpenGL programs run on your
system? What color bit-depth are you running at?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Ramon Crehuet wrote:
> Der VMD users,
> I've recently installed VMD on an Opensuse 11.1 box with an ATI HD 2400
> card using the ATI driver.
> When I open the VMD, the OpenGL window (where molecues are displayed) is
> transparent. I see the background windows. When I move the molecule then
> it shows its content, flickering. Has anybody encountered this problem?
> It is really annoying!
> Here are the first welcome lines in the console:
>
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, 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, 4 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 3476MB (87%)
> Info) ATI Linux driver detected, limiting features to avoid driver bugs.
> Info) Set the environment variable VMDDISABLEATILINUXWORKAROUND
> Info) to enable full functionality on a known-safe driver version.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (8192x8192x8192), Multitexture (8)
>
>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Ramon 

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