From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2013 - 00:33:13 CDT

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Vani Vemparala <vanivemparala_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently purchased a MAC mini with the following specifications:
>
> MAC OSX version 10.8.5
> Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB
> MAC mini specifications: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
> Memory 4 GB 1600 MHZ DDR3
>
> I installed VMD 1.9.1 (I tried both CUDA and NO-CUDA versions of VMD) and
> have been having problems with GLSL rendering. The VMD start up message is
> below and a figure comparing the VMD GUI window with and without GLSL
> rendering is located at:
> http://www.imsc.res.in/~vani/vmd/GLSL.jpg
>
> Any suggestions in this regard would be really helpful.

looks like a broken OpenGL driver. happens a lot with intel chipset graphics.
the linux version of the intel driver had been very broken for OpenGL
with GLSL for the last 3-4 years or so and is behaving decently only
since about a couple of months ago .

axel.

>
> -Thanks
> Vani
> ------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /Users/vani $ vmd
> Info) VMD for MACOSXX86, version 1.9.1 (February 4, 2012)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info) /Applications/VMD1.9.1.app/Contents/vmd/plugins/MACOSXX86/molfile
> vmd > Info) VMD for MACOSXX86, version 1.9.1 (February 4, 2012)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.