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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 20:48:02 CDT

Michele,
  Please do let us know what you find out when you run the various video
drivers. Also, if this resizing problem depends on the NVidia driver
version and is easily reproducible, then I'd definitely send a bug report
to linux-bugs_at_nvidia.com

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:19:25AM +0200, Michele Seeber wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I am using the XFree86 version that shipped with redhat9, ie 4.3.0-2. The graphic card is a NVidia 4200 go and the resolution is 1920x1200 - it's a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop.
> The complete freeze occurred while I used NVidia-Linux-x86-1.0-4349 drivers. Today I upgraded to their latest release, 1.0-4363 (24/04/2003) and vmd just takes up 99% of the CPU when resizing an empty window. The system no longer freezes but the program is not usable... I think the drivers might need some more bug-fixing. Next week I will test them on a machine running redhat8.0 with basically the same graphic card (NVidia Ti4200) where I happily run VMD with older drivers and I will let you know the outcome.
>
> Thanx for the suggestions.
>
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Michele,
> > What version of Xfree86, which video card, and which driver version
> > do you have installed on your system? If the entire system freezes, then
> > this is undoubtably a problem with the OpenGL drivers on your machine.
> > If you can provide more details about your hardware, I can probably provide
> > some suggestions to fix or workaround the problem. What resolution are
> > you running the windowing system at? I've seen problems with NVidia cards
> > when the VMD graphics window is made very large where they slow the machine
> > to a crawl, freeze X, or otherwise behave erratically. Their newer cards
> > and newer drivers seem to behave better in this respect. If its an ATI
> > card, then I don't have any immediate thoughts since I haven't seen this
> > type of problem with the ATI cards yet.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:31:40AM +0200, Michele Seeber wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am having problems with VMD on redhat9. It starts just fine, but as soon
> > > as the 3D window is touched (moved, or another window is moved over it)
> > > the whole system freezes.
> > > As in a previous post, I was unable to use the MESA version, so I
> > > installed the OpenGL version. The problem arose using VMD-1.7.1, VMD-1.8
> > > and VMD-1.8b3.
> > >
> > > Has anybody working with VMD under RedHat9 experienced such behavior?
> > > Thanks for your attention and help,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > dr. Michele Seeber, mailto:mseeber_at_bioc.unizh.ch
> > > Dept. of Biochemistry, Caflisch Group
> > > University of Zuerich
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> dr. Michele Seeber, mailto:mseeber_at_bioc.unizh.ch
> Dept. of Biochemistry, Caflisch Group
> University of Zuerich
> -------------------------------------------------- 

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