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From: Lubos Vrbka (shnek_at_chemi.muni.cz)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 16:09:38 CDT

john,

are you sure ALL platforms support real OpenGL drivers? you'll maybe recall
our conversation from past time, we were talking about NetBSD... i'm not
sure whether it supports direct opengl, but i don't think so... but i don't
think anything about it, so i could be (and probably i am) wrong...
> Using the Mesa driver in XFree86 would cure the problem, but would run
> 20x slower, so its not the ideal way of dealing with the problem. I don't
> intend to continue building statically-linked Mesa versions of VMD much
longer
> since all platforms support real OpenGL drivers these days, and the old
> statically linked version I've been shipping doesn't work on as many Linux
> distros as the "OpenGL" (dynamically linked) version. If you like you
might
> keep the OpenGL version of VMD on your box, and set your XFree driver to
use
> Mesa and see if the problem goes away for you or not.

regards,
lubos
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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek_at_chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
tel. +420 541 129 508
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