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From: Tim Travers (tstravers_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 16:25:03 CDT

Thanks for your reply Olaf. Unfortunately the "Display-Culling" trick didn't
work. But I've just tested Fedora 13, which uses the latest Linux Intel
graphics drivers (2.11.* I think), and it works fine now if I set the
Rendermode to GLSL. So for now, I think this'll work.

Thanks again,
Tim

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Olaf Lenz <lenzo_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de> wrote:

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> Hi!
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> On 05/26/2010 12:29 AM, Tim Travers wrote:
> > I've been having problems with color rendering when using VMD on a laptop
> > with an Intel graphics card. This only occurs when used with linux (I've
> > tested
> > Fedora 11, Fedora 12, and Ubuntu 10.04), but not when using Windows Vista
> > on the same laptop. The main problem is that the color rendering for the
> > licorice
> > and CPK drawing methods don't work right.
>
> The Linux Intel graphics drivers are known to be buggy. In my case, it
> helps sometimes to activate "Display->Culling".
> Otherwise, the only thing you can do is to wait. Maybe it helps to get
> the newest version of the graphics driver, but I wouldn't expet too much.
>
> Olaf
>
>
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