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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 12:40:13 CST
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Hi,
I would suspect the Intel i810 graphics driver as the source of trouble
in this case. What does the command 'glxinfo' report on your system?
You could try setting the environment variable VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS to 1
prior to running VMD and see if it gets farther along.
Cheers,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 07:48:45PM -0000, Syma Khalid wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to run vmd on my mac mini which is running ubuntu feisty fawn
> 7.04. The mac mini is a dual core 2.GHz with 1GB RAM. Please can anyone let
> me know if they have successfully installed and run vmd on a similar system?
>
> I can run vmd in text mode but not in graphical mode. The console appears on
> startup and then disappears within seconds.
>
> I am using the i810 video driver.
>
> If anyone has got vmd working on such a system I would appreciate it if they
> would let me know, which drivers etc they are using.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> -Syma
>
>
>
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