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From: Peter Carlsson (peca_at_brandeis.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 15:38:22 CST

Thanks John,

The b4 version works well.

For most purposes my on-board ATI card seems to do just fine (e.g.
displaying trajectory 'movies' using NewCartoon and Licorice
representations). Do you know if a dedicated graphics card would allow me
to show the movies using the Surf representation too? Would a GPU take
over the calculation of surfaces from the CPU? And, if so, would an
non-ATI (i.e. nVidia board) be a better choice at present?

Regards,
Peter

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Most likely you're having problems with the ATI graphics on that machine.
> Please try one of the newer test builds (which have extensive ATI bug
> workarounds built-in) and let me know if it works better for you:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:48:48PM -0500, Peter Carlsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed the LINUX AMD64 version (1.8.4a22) on a HP AMD computer
> > with on-board ATI graphics running RedHat Linux, but as soon as I read in
> > a file (pdb or CHARMM trajectory) VMD hangs. All windows opens up and the
> > VMD logo spins nicely before reading coordinate files.
> >
> > What could the problem be?
> >
> > The LINUX version won't start at all, i.e. the command window flashes by,
> > but no other windows.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
> > --
> > Peter Carlsson, PhD
> > Dept Biochemistry, Kern lab
> > Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
>
> 

-- 
Peter Carlsson, PhD
Dept Biochemistry, Kern lab
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA