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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 14:49:09 CDT

Hi,
  System freezes like the one you're experiencing are almost always
the result of a bad video driver. If you've read the VMD Linux release
notes, this is one of the most common problems people encounter when
using VMD with the standard-substandard video drivers shipped by the
linux distributions out-of-the-box. To cure this problem you should
proceed immediately to downloading and installing a vendor-provided
video driver for the video chipset on your machine. That has a good
chance of curing your problem, with only a few noteworthy exceptions.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:58:46PM -0700, Fred Moore wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I just built a small linux box based around an asus p5b-vm motherboard.
>
> Fedora-7 comes up nicely, but when I try installing the binary of vmd
> 1.8.6....
>
> The splash screen and the various windows come up and the system will
> sit there waiting for me to do something for as long as I care to
> wait with the logo spinning.
>
> The minute I try to move the mouse or if I touch the keyboard the
> system freezes, then the monitor goes dark and linux apparently hangs
> (I've been ssh'd in from another machine and
> this session goes non-responsive too). Can't find any useful log
> files to scrutinize...
>
> I considered compiling the source but got:
>
> > > > > make: *** No rule to make target `y.tab.h',
> > needed
> > > > by `vmd_LINUX'. Stop.
>
>
> The same error as this person reported recently.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> FM 

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