From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 10:01:32 CST

Hi

Its just as easy to fire up the text display

vmd -dispdev text

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Dallas Warren wrote:
>
> hi dallas,
>
> DW> I have just been updating my kernel and graphics drivers (ATI FireGL X1
> DW> 256). Not surprisingly something didn't work too well. Anyway, the text
> DW> window opens up and it appears to get to the CPU detection stage, but
> DW> anything beyond that I can't see as it crashes some how and the window
> DW> disappears.
> DW>
> DW> What is the way to find out what the error actually is?
>
> try starting the vmd_LINUX (from mentioning the kernel update,
> i assume you are running linux) binary directly. you will get
> a lot of warnings about missing environment variables and improper
> initialization, but you'll also get the important info about
> VMD querying the X11 driver for supported options.
>
> you can also change the vmd script to now spawn an xterm at all,
> by replacing the block starting from
>
> # if DISPLAY is set, spawn off...
>
> to the end of the script with:
>
> exec "$VMDDIR/$execname" $*
>
>
> regards,
> axel.
>
> DW>
> DW> Catch ya,
> DW>
> DW> Dr. Dallas Warren
> DW> Lecturer
> DW> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> DW> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> DW> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> DW> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> DW> +61 3 9903 9083
> DW> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DW> When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
> DW>
>
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