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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 14:32:28 CST

Vijay,
  Have you rebooted your machine after installing the drivers etc?
Perhaps your XFree86 installation is missing various X server extensions?
What happens if you run 'glxinfo' which is a binary that should come
with your Linux distribution.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:58:13PM +0530, vijay_at_mbu.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
> hi,
> i have tried everything and all the available resources both the physical
> and mental ones.
> i suspect that the version of the monitor or something has to do with it.
> the monitor was released after Red Hat 9 was released.
> the type of monitor was not found in the display properties.
> i dont really know what to do.
> i am positive that i have altered XF86config file the way NVIDIA has asked
> me to.
> can you guess any other possibility.
> thanks
> vijay
>
> > Hi,
> > Usually this is caused by out-of-date entries in your XFree86 config
> > file. Make sure you've _exactly_ followed the NVidia README file
> > instructions.
> > Installing the driver is 90% of what's needed, but you may have some old
> > stuff in your XFree86Config file that needs to be removed or changed, and
> > the NVidia README says what specifically to look for...
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:35:35PM +0530, vijay_at_mbu.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> thanks for the reply.
> >> i have a nvidia geforce MX 4000 (128MB) gfx card.
> >> i have installed the driver and its up and running.
> >> i checked on the XFree86 log file and i found that it was not able to
> >> activate the GLX extension.
> >> would you have any suggestions on how to activate that.
> >> vijay
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Vijay,
> >> > Your linux machine lacks the OpenGL GLX X server extension which is
> >> > required to run OpenGL programs. What video card do you have in that
> >> > machine?
> >> > I'd suggest that if you have an ATI or NVidia card, you download and
> >> > install
> >> > the official ATI or NVIdia drivers that are posted on their web sites.
> >> > That should fix this problem.
> >> >
> >> > John Stone
> >> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:16:00PM +0530, vijay_at_mbu.iisc.ernet.in
> >> wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> 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
> >> >> vijay
> >> >
> >> > --
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> >> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >> > Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> >> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >> >
> >
> > --
> > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> > Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> > 

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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349              
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078