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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 14:12:49 CDT

Hi,
  The ATI Linux driver should work with your 9800, and will solve
the speed problems you're having, but you'll need to disable some of the
VMD features to prevent a driver bug from crashing the program by running
this command prior to running VMD:
  setenv VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS 1

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am using an ATI Radeon 9800 video card. However, when visualizing systems of
> about 1500 atoms I experience significant video slowing in VMD. When loading
> VMD I get the following messages:
>
> OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
> Features: STENCIL RN MDE MTX PP PS
> GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
>
> Would updating the video driver help this problem? If so what video driver
> should I get? I've already been to the ATI website and looked at the
> downloadable drivers there.
> Thanks,
> Bob Johnson 

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