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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 14:05:45 CST

Hi,
  Does VMD run if you start it with:
vmd -dispdev text

If so, then run 'glxinfo' and see if you get any errors or warnings.

If both of those work, then we'll have to dig further, but those
are the first two things to try.

  John

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:23:15AM -0800, HuiZhe Li wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I am installing VMD1.8.3 on RHEL4. The installation
> finished without errors. But when i try to launch vmd
> i only saw something flashed for a very brief moment
> and then nothing happens. It is so brief that i don't
> know what is in that window. i am using nvidia quadro
> fx 1400 with nvidia driver 6629 on a xeon machine. How
> can i fix the problem? thanks in advance.
>
> huizhe
>
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