Re: [gentoo-science] New Vmd ebuild in ~x86

[Markus Dittrich <markusle@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alden Huang wrote:
> Thanks for the reply...i had originally installed the binaries....never 
> built it from source...but it seems that I'm getting the same problem 
> rebuild as before. This inquiry is probably better directed towards ATI 
> or the makers of VMD, but it detects fireglx module, recognizes my card 
> even, but the console window just dies without the VMD block letter 
> display ever coming up. Other applications seem to run with rendering 
> just fine...I'm rather new at this linux stuff...i was wondering wat is 
> the best way to capture the console window output easily prior to its 
> premature exit?
> 
> best,
> alden
> 

Hi Alden,

I've seen this happen in the past with the nvidia drivers and
it was often due to permission problems.

You could first try running VMD in text mode to make sure
it works

[markus@despina] vmd -dispdev none

If this works, strace on the VMD binary should give you a clue 
what might be going wrong,

[markus@despina] strace /usr/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX


best,
Markus



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Markus Dittrich (markusle)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications
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