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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 13:41:30 CDT

Dear Michele,
  What version of Xfree86, which video card, and which driver version
do you have installed on your system? If the entire system freezes, then
this is undoubtably a problem with the OpenGL drivers on your machine.
If you can provide more details about your hardware, I can probably provide
some suggestions to fix or workaround the problem. What resolution are
you running the windowing system at? I've seen problems with NVidia cards
when the VMD graphics window is made very large where they slow the machine
to a crawl, freeze X, or otherwise behave erratically. Their newer cards
and newer drivers seem to behave better in this respect. If its an ATI
card, then I don't have any immediate thoughts since I haven't seen this
type of problem with the ATI cards yet.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:31:40AM +0200, Michele Seeber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with VMD on redhat9. It starts just fine, but as soon
> as the 3D window is touched (moved, or another window is moved over it)
> the whole system freezes.
> As in a previous post, I was unable to use the MESA version, so I
> installed the OpenGL version. The problem arose using VMD-1.7.1, VMD-1.8
> and VMD-1.8b3.
>
> Has anybody working with VMD under RedHat9 experienced such behavior?
> Thanks for your attention and help,
>
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> dr. Michele Seeber, mailto:mseeber_at_bioc.unizh.ch
> Dept. of Biochemistry, Caflisch Group
> University of Zuerich
> -------------------------------------------------- 

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