VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 06:59:46 CDT

I would expect that FX2700M to work fine for VMD, but I'll have to dig
into the details when I get back from travelling out of town. I'll
be back at the lab on Friday and should be able to help you more then.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:28:10PM +0200, MyLinkka wrote:
> update:
> I changed back to an ancient driver (176.06 for HP, released ~06.2008 )
> for the Quadro
> FX2700M on my laptop. The problem was the same as described before.
>
> Doesn't this problem is related to the hardware capability? Is anyone
> using VMD with
> the same card?
>
> ting
>
> John Stone wrote:
> >Hi,
> > Which NVIDIA driver version are you running? This sounds like an
> >OpenGL driver bug to me, since I don't get a crash on either my
> >NVIDIA-equipped test boxes at the lab, or an an old laptop with
> >an outdated ATI chipset.
> >
> >I've had two other people tell me that they have encountered a
> >crash with the beta, having the exact driver information
> >for affected machines will be very helpful so I can report bugs
> >the GPU vendors.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:14:34PM +0200, MyLinkka wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm eager to try out the new Beta version. 2 days ago, I installed 1.8.7
> >>beta 2 on both my laptop and
> >>desktop PC. Beta 2 crashes on the laptop but worked on the PC. Both
> >>computers have Nvidia graphics
> >>card (FX2700M and Geforce 8600 GT). Today I installed the latest beta
> >>3 on both. Sadly beta 3
> >>crashed on both computers! Before install beta2, I didn't install any
> >>software or update drivers.
> >>That's why I turn to this mailing list, cause I think it is almost for
> >>sure an issue from vmd.
> >>
> >>The symptom is the same. After starting vmd, first the console window
> >>showed, it seems fine and
> >>it listed information and capability of my graphics card. Then the 3D
> >>window popped up, I could
> >>see the 3D texts and the axes at the corner. (my feeling it the OpenGl
> >>context and scene had been
> >>created without problem.) Finally it's the turn of the main control
> >>windows, I can see the window
> >>frame, but before the contents (menus,buttons) could be seen the program
> >>crashed.
> >>
> >>on my laptop, the system report a "the memory could not be 'read'"
> >>error. On the PC,
> >>an error happend at offset 0x00028c0d in ntdll.dll.
> >>
> >>BTW, vmd 1.8.6 work perfect on both computers.
> >>
> >>Could anyone point me what to do? Is there a way to generate a startup
> >>log file to address the error
> >>source?
> >>
> >>thanks!
> >>
> >>ting
> >>
> >
> > 

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