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From: Gyimesi Gergely (ggyimesi_at_enzim.hu)
Date: Sun May 15 2005 - 10:16:08 CDT

Helo,

  Just for your info: I'm having the same problem, with the fglrx-8.10.19 and
fglrx-8.12.10 drivers also, with a Radeon 8500 card. I've tried setting
VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS, but it didn't help.. The segfault only happens when
loading large molecules (eg. proteins), it works OK for smaller ones. It also
works OK in text mode.
Looking forward to anything you can do, after May 20. :-)

Gergely Gyimesi
Ph.D student
Institute of Enzymology,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

>Hi,
> Try setting this environment variable before starting VMD, it will
>disable all of the advanced OpenGL features that VMD uses, in favor of
>a more minimalistic and simpler OpenGL 1.1-based functionality:
> setenv VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS 1
>
>Let me know if this gets you up and running.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
>
>>Is there any way to work around the fglrx-8.10.19 driver crash? I've
>>seen the posts and bug report but would prefer not to downgrade my
>>driver. Is there any way to use MESA or some other software rendering
>>instead?
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