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From: Mark Cunningham (cunningham_at_utpa.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 21 2009 - 10:00:33 CDT

Ramon:
 
I have just installed the ATI drivers under openSUSE 11.1. This took a
huge amount of effort because when the installer fails it doesn't say
anything about it on the screen. You need to look at the file
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log. There are most likely a slew of error messages
that you will need to address. The ATI drivers are designed to be installed
from the .run file directly. Do NOT attempt to use Yast or build the
system-specific rpm files. Read the Catalyst installation instructions very carefully;
there are a slew of pitfalls.
 
Mark
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Mark A Cunningham, Associate Professor
The University of Texas-Pan American

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From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu on behalf of John Stone
Sent: Mon 7/20/2009 4:09 PM
To: Ramon Rocha
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD on laptop with ATI Radeon 3650

Hi,
  I'm guessing you're running Linux, although you don't say specifically.
If so, what version are you using? Are you able to run "glxgears"
successfully on this machine? What version of VMD are you trying to run?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:00:40PM -0700, Ramon Rocha wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have been trying to install VMD in my laptop which has an ATI Radeon card. All the instalation runs well until I try to initialize VMD with "vmd" at the prompt. I got no error messages but the graphic window simply doesnt come. I had tried to install the ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run update but nothing has changed.
>
> So does anybody has experiencied this problem before and can help me?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ramon Rocha
> PhD Student
> UFMG - Cheminformatics Group
> Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
>
>
> 

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