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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 09:47:36 CST

Jerome,
  Which version of the FireGL drivers are you using? I'm using 3.2.7 on
the FireGL X1 board here and they seem to work fine for me. I wonder if the
problems are specific to the non-FireGL video boards??

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:38:39AM +0100, Jérôme Hénin wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> I'm having exactly the same problem with a FireGL 8800 board and ATI's latest
> drivers, on a 2.4.21 kernel. Until now, I have no solution. To use VMD I
> don't need to use another driver, but I have to switch off 3d acceleration
> (by adding Option "no_accel" "yes" in the board's "Device" section in
> XF86Config-4).
>
> The next thing I'm going to do is buy an NVIDIA card, and stick this one in a
> Windows machine. I'm afraid this won't work for your laptop...
>
> Regards,
> Jerome
>
> Le Jeudi 30 Octobre 2003 13:53, Lucas Watkins a écrit :
> > I am using a Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 video card in an IBM Thinkpad T40,
> > running Gentoo Linux on a 2.6.0-test9 kernel. When I use the stock
> > (unaccelerated) drivers in the kernel, I have no problems except for the
> > lack of #D acceleration. When I switch to ATI's FireGL drivers, vmd will
> > start but crashes upon attempting to load any structure file. Has anyone
> > else had a problem with this? How can I work around this, other than
> > switching to the slower drivers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lucas Watkins
> 

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