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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 13:47:55 CDT

Sabuj,
  Did you try running VMD using the VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS environment variable?
Can you try that and tell me if that affects how it interacts
with the nVidia drivers you've experienced problems with thus far?
I'd like to know if it's related to the use of various OpenGL extensions
or if the new nVidia drivers also fail on plain OpenGL 1.1 calls.
Did you ever get a chance to email the bug to linux-bugs_at_nvidia.com?
They provide a bug reporter script that they include with their drivers
that provides the information they need about your Linux installation
to help them fix the problem. Their bug reporting script is normally
installed in:
  /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh

It creates a nvidia-bug-report.log file they want you to mail to them.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:21:48PM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I have found that 1.0.6629 for Quadros is the only version which
> doesn't crash vmd and pymol on x86 (32bit) systems.
>
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6629/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
>
> Hope that helps,
> Sabuj Pattanayek
>
> Karsten Suhre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the problem you report with the NVIDIA driver only limitted to x86_64
> > systems?
> >
> > My AMD Athlon 2400 bi-proc (32 bit SuSE 9.2 Nvidia Quadro vers. 1.0-7174) also
> > crashes whenever I switch from Line mode to anything rendered. Does this mean
> > that downgrading of the driver is the only solution?
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help,
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Karsten.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:18, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>The latest x86_64 driver for linux used in a native 64bit environment
> >>(kernel & system & vmd64):
> >>
> >>NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174
> >>
> >>..seems to work fine and doesn't have the problems that the 7xxx 32 bit
> >>drivers have with 32 bit systems and vmd-32bit. In other words I can
> >>recreate that problem if I use vmd32 in the 64bit environment.
> >>Surprisingly the same is true for pymol64 and pymol32.
> >>
> >>You said you were running XP Pro on the athlon64 machine correct? You
> >>may qualify for upgrading to winxp64
> >>(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx). Then
> >>maybe you can try the 64bit nvidia driver? Or switching to linux64 may
> >>be an option.
> >>
> >>..Sabuj Pattanayek
> >>
> >>Carlos Simmerling wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi John,
> >>>I just got this sort of figured out but didn't know how to mail a
> >>>reply to my own post. You're right, it's the nvidia drivers,
> >>>not the athlon64. I had been using 71.84.
> >>>
> >>>I read another post about issues with the linux driver and quadros
> >>>so I tried both a new leaked driver (76.50) and an old one (67.22).
> >>>76.50 did not work but 67.22 does, so I think it might be the same
> >>>quad strips problem you mentioned.
> >>>thanks a lot for the quick reply!
> >>>Carlos
> >>>
> >>>===================================================================
> >>>Carlos L. Simmerling, Ph.D.
> >>>Associate Professor Phone: (631) 632-1336
> >>>Center for Structural Biology Fax: (631) 632-1555
> >>>Stony Brook University Web: http://comp.chem.sunysb.edu/carlos
> >>>Stony Brook, NY 11794-5115 E-mail: carlos.simmerling_at_stonybrook.edu
> >>>===================================================================
> >>>
> >>>John Stone wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi Carlos,
> >>>> What version of the nVidia drivers are you running on that
> >>>>machine? Do you experience a crash with any other representation?
> >>>>I've been hearing of some problems with nVidia drivers recently
> >>>>from around the molecular graphics community (not just VMD), it's
> >>>>possible that you're a victim of this recent phenomina.
> >>>>What does VMD print in the text console when it first
> >>>>starts up? If you can send me the startup messages, that would
> >>>>be very helpful.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks,
> >>>> John Stone
> >>>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>>>
> >>>>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:13:25AM -0400, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>VMD is working fine on my pentium 4 PC under XP.
> >>>>>I just got an Athlon64 PC (with XP) and a quadro FX1100.
> >>>>>VMD works ok, but when I add a licorice representation it
> >>>>>always crashed. The same thing works fine on my
> >>>>>other (Intel) PCs under windows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Has anyone else seen this? I couldn't find anything
> >>>>>in the archives, and the amd64 binaries seem to be for
> >>>>>unixes only.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Any ideas? I can send more info if it would help.
> >>>>>Carlos
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>===================================================================
> >>>>>Carlos L. Simmerling, Ph.D.
> >>>>>Associate Professor Phone: (631) 632-1336
> >>>>>Center for Structural Biology Fax: (631) 632-1555
> >>>>>Stony Brook University Web: http://comp.chem.sunysb.edu/carlos
> >>>>>Stony Brook, NY 11794-5115 E-mail: carlos.simmerling_at_stonybrook.edu
> >>>>>=================================================================== 

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