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From: David A. Horita (dhorita_at_wfubmc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 17:19:49 CDT

John,
Thus far, it works great. We'll work on crashing it later :) Pretty cool- spinning around a surface rep of a protein in stereo at fairly high speed.
Thanks much.
Regards,
Dave Horita

-----Original Message-----
From: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
Sent: Tue 10/5/2004 5:50 PM
To: David A. Horita
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: amd64/nvidiaFX1100/linux crash
 

David,
  I've got an updated test version for you to try here:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

Delete the old version and try the new one. I've recently added some
code that avoids a problem with the NVidia drivers on AMD64. I spent
a good part of yesterday working with an Opteron test machine and the
latest NVidia drivers and didn't have the crashing behavior you describe.
Try this version and let me know if you still have problems.

I'm going to be out of town from tomorrow night until Oct 14th, so I'd
recommend getting the new version installed and tested tonight if you need
any help from me before I get back.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:00:07PM -0400, David A. Horita wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm still having crash issues with an AMD64 opteron/Linux (Suse 9.1)/Nvidia Quadro FX 1100 setup. I can fire up 1.8.3a23 and load/display molecules, but when I try cpk, the molecule disappears and vmd eventually crashes. I'm running the vmd_LINUX version; the start script sets ARCH=LINUXAMD64 but my installation didn't setup an vmd_LINUXAMD64 program/link. Is this the problem?
>
> vmd starts with:
> Info) Features: STENCIL STEREO RN MDE CVA MTX TCM PP PS GLSL SHO SHV SHF
> Info) OpenGL Programmable shading is enabled.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (512x512x512), Multitexture (4)
>
> >From the earlier posts, should GLSL be disabled?
>
> I'm using vmd-1.8.3a23.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz from /Research/vmd/alpha/vrpn.
> Suse linux 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.108, nvidia driver x86_64-1.0-6111.
>
> Thanks,
> David Horita 

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