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From: J. Rui Rodrigues (jrui_at_ci.uc.pt)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 18:48:37 CDT

Hi,
I'm having problems getting vmd to work (1.7.1 and 1.8a21 opengl
versions). I got the following error:
Couldn't open required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2!
Segmentation fault

Starting vmd as "vmd -dispdev text" works fine. My system is:
Athlon 1100Mhz with a GeForce2 MX card.
Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586
Kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise on an i686

I installed the following nvidia drivers with rpm:
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.mdk82enterprise

cd /usr/X11R6/lib
ls -l *libG*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635014 Mar 9 05:04 libGL.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 8 07:36 libGL.so.1 ->
libGLwrapper.so.0.1.6*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 2 07:34 libGLU.so.1 ->
libGLU.so.1.3.401*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 763084 Feb 21 18:36
libGLU.so.1.3.401*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26748 Mar 9 05:04 libGLw.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135572 Feb 21 18:36
libGLwrapper.so.0.1.6*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 231184 Feb 21 18:36
xxx.libGL.so.1.0.RPMSAVE*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 485040 Mar 9 05:06
xxx.libGL.so.1.2.RPMSAVE*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2085616 Feb 21 18:36
xxx.libGL.so.1.3.401.RPMSAVE*

The xxx.*.RPMSAVE files where renamed by rpm when installing NVIDIA_GLX.
Other openGL programs seems to run OK (gears, morph3d,...). Is this a
problem with the configuration of my linux box or with vmd?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Rui Rodrigues 

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J. Rui Rodrigues
Dep. de Quimica
Fac. Ciências e Tecnologia da Univ. Coimbra
Largo D. Dinis
3004-535 Coimbra
Portugal