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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 13:13:31 CDT

Dow,
  I got an email from Joe that he's got it working fine now after
upgrading his NVidia drivers.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:10:51PM -0400, Dow Hurst DPHURST wrote:
> Joe,
> Just upgrade your Nvidia driver to the latest. Make sure you can be root
> on your machine.
>
> 1. Download latest Nvidia driver. Check your card is supported.
>
> 2. Make sure kernel source is installed for RHEL4
>
> 3. Edit /etc/inittab and make the default runlevel 3 instead of 5
>
> 4. Shutdown X by issuing init 3 in a shell as root.
>
> 5. Run the Nvidia installer, here is an example:
>
> sh /usr/share/doc/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1.run
>
> and answer the prompts to compile a new nvidia kernel interface and install
> it.
>
> 6. Once that is done then test by using startx. If you get X running then
> you can undo the edit in /etc/inittab back to runlevel 5.
>
> 7. You'll need to repeat this anytime you upgrade the kernel since the
> RHEL4 probably won't have your downloaded driver integrated.
>
> Maybe someone could post a link from Redhat about where the downloaded
> driver should go to be integrated into kudzu's stuff. Hope this helps,
> Dow
>
>
>
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> -----owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu wrote: -----
>
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> From: Joseph Fernandez <joefern9999_at_yahoo.com>
> Sent by: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Date: 09/06/2005 10:52AM
> cc: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: vmd-l: VMD crashes with FX440 and RH Entreprise 4.0
>
> Dear all:
>
> I have an Nvidia FX4400 graphics card running on a RH
> Entreprise 4 workstation (Dell). VMD launches without
> any problems, and I can even load PDB or other files.
> But when I render the molecule in anything else than
> lines (e.g. Licorice), the program crashes!
>
> I would be really grateful for any suggestions on how
> to solve this problem.
>
> I look forward to your reply.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
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