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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2006 - 10:40:12 CDT

Hi,
  Which video chipset and driver are you using on your machine?
This sounds to me like a buggy graphics driver. If you can email
me the VMD startup message that will be helpful in determining what's
happening on your machine.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:23:58PM -0400, Wei Liu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a new user of VMD and I just installed the precompiled version of VMD on
> Mandriva Linux 2006. When I start the program by typing "vmd", error messages
> appear in the vmd console window as the following.
>
> XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
> 0x30000ad
>
> and
>
> XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
> 0x44
>
> I can still load my pdb file and display it in VMD opengl window as lines, but
> if I choose the drawing method as newcartoon, the program will shut down
> automatically. Does anybody meet such a problem? Any suggestions will be
> highly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Wei Liu 

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