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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 10:37:10 CDT

Jerome,
  Yes, that sounds like a driver bug, since I don't experience that
problem here, even when I load molecules with 500,000 atoms. I've found
various other less-critical bugs and reported them to ATI. In general,
you should _always_ report bugs/problems you run into as it might even
be a bug that's specific to the motherboard you've got in your machine.
By the way, ATI has a 3.2.7 version posted on one of their FTP sites
that I've got access to, so you might see if 3.2.7 works better on your
machine. I'll install 3.2.7 on mine and see if any new problems have
cropped up, or if they've got stereo working now.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:31:32PM +0200, Jérôme Hénin wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for replying so quickly. The problem is, I'm actually using the latest
> proprietary ATI driver : fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm
> So you think there must be one more bug in there ?
> Maybe I should send a bug report to them then.
>
> Jerome
>
>
> Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 17:21, vous avez écrit :
> > Jerome,
> > What version of the ATI drivers are you using on your machine?
> > I have a test machine here with an ATI FireGL X1 that works ok, using
> > their 3.2.4 drivers. That version of their drivers does still have a
> > few bugs, but its much more stable than the drivers that the XFree86
> > team ships, and much better than they were earlier this year.
> >
> > The actual driver RPM I'm using is:
> > fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-3.2.4.i586.rpm
> >
> > I'd recommend that you get the latest ATI drivers and install them,
> > it'll probably fix the crashing that you're experiencing. If you're
> > using the Open Source R300 drivers provided by the XFree86 team, I'd
> > suggest switching to ATI's driver instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
>
> 

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