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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 10:57:12 CDT

Tom,
  I'm quite puzzled about your display mode being set to a non-truecolor
visual. Can you email me the output from the command "glxinfo", and
from "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version" ? That should give me the
information I need. Oh, and as Axel mentioned previously, it'd be
helpful to upgrade to the released version of VMD 1.8.7.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:52:35PM -0500, Bishop, Thomas C wrote:
> Vmd gives me this message after install 11.1 and then dies.
>
> (using yast2 w/ download.nvida.com for the nvidia drivers/configuration as
> a check glx gears runs)
>
> ade 108% vmd
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
> 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: 7437MB (94%)
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> ERROR) A TrueColor visual is required, but not available.
> ERROR) The X server is not capable of displaying double-buffered,
> ERROR) RGB images with a Z buffer. Exiting ...
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
> Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
>
> the /var/log/messages has this to say
> Sep 4 17:51:16 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13051] general protection
> ip:5b5623 sp:7fff2b07a800 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]
> Sep 4 17:51:47 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13066] general protection
> ip:5b5623 sp:7fff90e1fda0 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]
> Sep 4 17:53:14 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13136] general protection
> ip:5b5623 sp:7fff7f3b3400 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000] 

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