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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 17:05:50 CDT

Hi,
  One thing you can do to verify whether VMD is finding your
Mesa/OpenGL shared libraries is to execute it like this:
  vmd -dispdev text

If it starts up normally, then it's finding the libraries, and you're
having a different problem. If not, it should print the error it is
encountering when it starts. Let us know what you find out.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:53:37AM -0400, Jing wrote:
> Hi, all
> I'm trying to install VMD 1.8.3 on a Linux machine. I have already
> installed Mesa but not in the standard location. I also edited mesa dir
> in the configure script to point to the Mesa library, and followed the
> installation instructions to install the VMD. But only a window flashed
> once, then disappeared when I run vmd. Could anyone help me solve this
> problem? Thanks a lot!
>
> Jing 

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