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From: Nichols A. Romero (naromero_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 15:07:14 CDT

John,

Thanks for taking a look at this. I'm attaching as a text file.

I contacted my System Administrator and asked him if anything has changed.
Unfortunately, I don't have the liberty
of downgrading libraries, kernels, etc. myself. I can't even look at
/var/log/messages.

On 4/5/07, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Interesting. It seems that your video driver is not advertising
> _any_ of the OpenGL shading language extensions. The "Features" line
> printed by VMD doesn't include any of the programmable shading extensions.
> In a normal run on a machine that has all of the OpenGL extensions, you
> would see "GLSL(OVF)" toward the end of the OpenGL features string
> printed by VMD.
>
> Since you mentioned that you previously did have GLSL working on this
> hardware, the most likely cause of problems is that your system's
> OpenGL libraries or video driver version has been changed to one that
> is less capable than you had previously. Can you email me the output
> of "glxinfo" on this machine? I will be able to determine more about
> your video driver and OpenGL library based on the output it prints.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:41:22PM -0400, Nichols A. Romero wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hate to mail the list with this type of a problem, but I have no where
> to
> > turn.
> >
> > I did
> > setenv VMDGLSLVERBOSE 1
> > before I ran VMD. Not sure if that was correct.
> >
> > VMD 1.8.5 is given me the following message:
> > Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX Go1400/PCI/SSE2
> > Info) Features: STENCIL MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
> > Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> > Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (512x512x512), Multitexture (4)
> >
> > Following a previous thread that I found on the mailing list, here is
> the
> > output of
> > locale:
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> > GLSL rendering was available on my machine several weeks ago. I know for
> > sure because I took a snap shot of a high quality image on my computer
> and
> > I still have it.
> >
> > There are patches applied to my computer all the time without my
> knowledge
> > and I wouldn't be suprised if one of the messed things up.
> >
> > Here is my kernel version:
> > 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL
> >
> > Let me know if you can help.
> > --
> > Nichols A. Romero, Ph.D.
> > 1613 Denise Dr. Apt. D
> > Forest Hill, MD 21050
> > 443-567-8328 (C)
> > 410-306-0709 (O)
>
> --
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> 

-- 
Nichols A. Romero, Ph.D.
1613 Denise Dr. Apt. D
Forest Hill, MD 21050
443-567-8328 (C)
410-306-0709 (O)

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