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From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_uhp-nancy.fr)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 17:23:03 CDT

I think you can (and should) use the Linux-OpenGL version of VMD. The system
should be able to provide software OpenGL rendering automatically.

[John himself told me that once, so it *must* be the very best thing to do]

Jerome

Le Mardi 14 Octobre 2003 18:24, Miguel a écrit :
> I have never used vmd ... downloaded it today.
>
> I am running RedHat 9 and I *not* have any 3D graphics hardware. So I
> downloaded vmd 1.8 Linux Mesa
>
> I *think* I have the right mesa packages installed:
>
> [mth_at_hucho mth]$ rpm -qa | grep -i mesa
> XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2
> XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2
>
> The ./configure and make seemed to go fine.
>
> When I launch vmd it opens a couple of windows, then immediately shuts
> down ... it happens too quickly to see the messages in the console window.
>
> I tried the -debug <n> command line switch, but it didn't help.
>
> Is there a log file someplace?
>
> Thanks,
> Miguel