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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 21:02:04 CST

Luis,
  This just came up with a few other people recently as well,
the problem is that you're using a broken video driver that ships
with XFree86 by default. If you install the ATI-provided video
driver (get it from their web site), your problem should go away.
I've had good luck with the ATI 3.2.7 drivers.

  John

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Luis Gracia wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently tried to run VMD 1.8.2 in a linux box with an ATI FireGL E1
> graphics card and I get no color in the "OpenGL Display" window, ie,
> the VDM logo and axes are in grayscale.
> "VMD Main" window colors are normal, and ie. using "Color Controls"
> allows me to change the display background in the "OpenGL Display"
> window", but not the axes colors.
>
> I got some unusual messages at the end of the printed info while loading
> vmd:
>
> Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
> 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, 1 CPU detected.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa DRI R200 20020827 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
> Info) Features: STENCIL RN MTX
> Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), 3-D (128x128x1), Multitexture (2)
> r200_makeX86Normal3fv/197 CVAL 0 OFFSET 14 VAL 405ff9c0
> r200_makeX86Normal3fv/198 CVAL 4 OFFSET 20 VAL 405ff9c4
> r200_makeX86Normal3fv/199 CVAL 8 OFFSET 25 VAL 405ff9c8
> r200_makeX86Normal3fv done
>
> Any clue?
>
> Thanks you very much,
>
> Best,
>
> Luis
>
>
> --
> Luis Gracia, PhD
> Department of Physiology & Biophysics
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> 1300 York Avenue, Box 75
> New York, NY 10021
>
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> Fax: (212) 746-6361
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