From: Florian Haberl (Florian.Haberl_at_chemie.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 10:15:08 CST

Hi,

> I have downloaded and installed VMD in my Linux machine (Red Hat 9.0).
> If I run VMD I get the following error message in the VMD Console.
>
> ***************************************************************************
>**
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 2 CPUs detected.
> ERROR) The X server does not support the OpenGL GLX extension.   Exiting
> ... Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
> Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
>
> ***************************************************************************
>** Please help me out of this

take mesa version ( not so much 3d power)
or better solution:
Install xserver with GLX extension, don^t know what gfx card you have, but
normally nvidia or ati, and both should work with opengl for xserver.

Consider red hat website for this issue, i never used red hat so i don^t know.

Greetings,

Florian

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