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From: Luis Rosales (ludwig_at_correo.biomedicas.unam.mx)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 00:42:19 CDT

Hi all!!!

Normally VMD is a nice program to install and run...
However, when your installation does not run, you should check for:

VMD for linux uses "xterm" (I think) for the console, if you dont have xterm
installed, you will have problems...

Do you have all the OpenGL extensions installed???
Run "glxinfo" and if you have openGL extensions missing, you will see the
error messages there...

if the two above are not giving you problem, maybe you should check:
Do you have very strange OS??? an exotic graphics card???

Hope this helps,
Best regards,

Ludovico

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Biol. Luis Rosales León
Departamento de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
AP 70228, Cd. Universitaria
México, D.F. 04510
Tel: 56223873
Fax: 56223855
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Dallas B. Warren" <Dallas.Warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au>
To: VMD users <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:02:12 +1000
Subject: RE: vmd-l: What's wrong with my VMD

> > But when start the program, the windows of VMD appear and
> > are closed with a flash in the screen. So, I cant't get into
> > the program at all. I have tried to install it newly. But it
> > does not work.
>
> Don't recall them off the top of my head, but if you search the emailing
> list for this problem there is a number of things that you can do to
> find out what error is occuring. Once you have the information,
> post it back here (or search for the error) and someone should be
> able to help you out.
>
> Catch ya,
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
> Lecturer
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> +61 3 9903 9073
> ---------------------------------
> When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble
> a nail.
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