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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 09:35:13 CST

Hi,
  Sorry for the slow reply, your email slipped past me as I was in
the process of flying back from South Africa on the day you sent it.
The problem you're describing sounds to me like a video driver bug.
What video card or chipset are you using? Have you installed the latest
Linux drivers for your card? If you've already installed the latest
driver, try doing this (csh syntax):
  setenv VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS 1

or (sh, bash syntax)
  VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS=1
  export VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS

If enabling those cures the problem, then it's almost certainly
the result of a video driver bug of some sort. Send me the
VMD startup message, in particular the OpenGL-related lines,
and I may have further suggestions.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:13:32PM +0800, Jufang Shan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed VMD on novel SUSE 10 using package
> vmd-1.8.6.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz by following the installation
> instructions.
>
> And this is the configure options:
> LINUX OPENGL FLTK TK ACTC IMD SPACEBALL LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PYTHON
> PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT
>
> I can start and run VMD but can not display NewRibbons and New Cartoon. I
> can display Licorice, Trace etc.
>
> Do you have any clue what is going wrong with my installation?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jufang 

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