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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 16:53:48 CST

Dallas,
  I'd send the ATI guys bug reports on their Linux driver,
as I think you're now the second person that's run into this
particular problem. Needless to say, this same window creation
code is used on ALL Unix platforms and doesn't crash on any other
card or driver, so I'd think this would be easy for ATI to fix.
If you're interested in a hacked VMD that disables the minimum
necessary to get by with this broken ATI driver, I might be able
to build you a new VMD binary that just turns off the advanced window
creation code, but leaves all the rest of the features enabled.

  John

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:49:33AM +1100, Dallas Warren wrote:
> >If this is correct, then the ATI driver is crashing early
> >on when VMD is creating the OpenGL window, either when requesting
> >multisample antialiasing, stereo, stencil buffers, or one of the
> >other advanced OpenGL features. The VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS variable
> >disables all of those, so if that allows it to run, that means
> >it's something during the window creation that's killing you.
>
> So what to do other than sending ATI heaps of bad karma? ;-)
>
> Catch ya,
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
> Lecturer
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> +61 3 9903 9083
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> nail. 

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