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From: Eduard Schreiner (eduard.schreiner_at_rub.de)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 08:05:37 CDT

Hey,
what is about the .vmdrc file, does it contain the:

menu main on

command?

Eddi

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 12:15, Loison Claire wrote:
> Hi VMDers,
>
> I just downloaded the binary version of VMD 1.8.5 for UNIX on a
> EMT64(xeon) chip using opengl,
> under suse linux 10.1. I set the VMDDIR variable and copied some tcl
> libraries, until no errors appeared.
> but.... no "main" window !
>
> I get the opengl window with the logo VMD
> moving around, and the vmd prompt in my terminal.
> Perhaps you are interested in the info lines when opening vmd :
> ..........
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.5 (August 25, 2006)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> Warning) Simple graphics mode: OpenGL 1.0, no extensions
> Info) ATI Linux driver detected, limiting features to avoid driver bugs.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: ATI FireGL V3400 Pentium 4 (SSE2) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
> Info) Features:
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> ..........
>
> From the mailing list, i understood that i may come from the
> ATI driver, and i tried to set the variable
> VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS=1
> but the problem remains.
>
> Any idea how i could get vmd main window ?
> Thanks in advance !
> Claire Loison
> 

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