From: Huaer XC (huaer.xc_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 13:32:49 CDT

I am using IBM x-31. I guess the vedio card is fine, coz VMD works
perfectly in my Win-XP system in the same Laptop. I use the default
driver by Mandrake Linux, so this is probably the problem. Is there
anyway I can do to solve it? thanks a lot,
Huaer

On Apr 11, 2005 1:30 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Huaer,
> Yes, I'd be suspicious of the Linux video driver. What video card
> does your machine use?
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:40:31PM -0400, Huaer XC wrote:
> > Hi, I also got a very bad result of vmd1.83 running in my Mandrake
> > 10.0 Linux. My problem is that everytime I ran vmd, three panels did
> > show up, but the screen got frozen so that I had to restart my
> > computer. VMD works very well with Win-XP in the same PC, so I guess
> > it should not be the problems of the Video card. Is there anything I
> > can do to fix this problem? Thanks in advance..
> > Huaer
> >
> > On Apr 10, 2005 9:43 AM, matteo.pennestri_at_virgilio.it
> > <matteo.pennestri_at_virgilio.it> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I have just installed vmd 1.8.3 on linux mandrake 10.0 but when I type "vmd"
> > > only the vmd console is displayed. No "vmd 1.8.3 OpenGL Display" and no
> > > "VMD MAIN" is displayed.
> > > Is there something that I have to do to display it?
> > >
> > > Many thanks.....
> > > Matteo.
> > >
> > >
>
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