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From: Olaf Lenz (olenz_at_fias.uni-frankfurt.de)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 07:56:26 CDT

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Hello!

Now it's my time to ask a stupid question: I'd like to run VMD on a
debian machine. The machine has no 3D hardware, instead I would like to
use Mesa software rendering. Mesa is installed.

I installed vmd-1.8.4.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz. However, when I start
VMD, I get

ERROR) The X server does not support the OpenGL GLX extension. Exiting ...
Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.

... what's going wrong here? I thought, that Mesa would implement the
GLX extensions? Is this a problem of the Linux installation
(unfortunately I have no root access), or of the VMD installation?

Cheers
        Olaf

PS: VMD did already run on the machine in question when there was still
another RH Linux installation, so in principle it should be possible...

Additional information:
> glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

   visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
 id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

> apt-show-versions | grep mesa
xlibmesa-glu/stable uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
xlibmesa-gl/stable uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
xlibmesa-dri/stable uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
xlibmesa-glu-dev/stable uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
xlibmesa-gl-dev/stable uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
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