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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 15:20:56 CST

Steve,
  Send me that actual startup message you're getting that says Mesa,
I want to see the actual text VMD outputs. From what you say, it almost
sounds to me like you're trying to remote display from an SGI to a Linux
box or something like that. If that's in fact what you're doing, then
the problem isn't with the SGI at all, its your linux box that's the problem.
The only place where VMD would print something about Mesa would be from
the OpenGL renderer string, and that comes from the machine console that
you're actually displaying to, not the machine you're running from, so
if you're remote displaying VMD to a different machine, that is the source
of your problems and you'll need to check the machine that you're actually
displaying on.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:02:09PM -0500, Steven F. Killen wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, John Stone wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> > Send me the output of this command from your SGI, so I can see what your
> > VMD is being dynamically linked against:
>
> irix2 /usr/tmp/build/vmd/IRIX6_64/lib/vmd % /usr/bin/elfdump -Dl
> vmd_IRIX6_64
>
> vmd_IRIX6_64:
>
> **** MIPS LIBLIST INFORMATION ****
> .liblist :
> [INDEX] Timestamp Checksum Flags Name
> Version
> [1] Apr 14 13:39:23 2002 0x5cf54b13 ----- libGL.so sgi1.0
> [2] Apr 14 13:39:34 2002 0xb1ced9e1 ----- libGLU.so sgi1.0
> [3] Apr 14 13:38:10 2002 0xba1b8c94 ----- libXi.so sgi1.0
> [4] Apr 14 13:37:17 2002 0x55e75e88 ----- libpthread.so sgi1.0
> [5] Apr 14 13:37:15 2002 0xb08e1179 ----- libX11.so.1 sgi1.0
> [6] Apr 14 13:37:22 2002 0x553d297d ----- libm.so sgi1.0
> [7] Apr 14 13:36:47 2002 0x6b322131 ----- libCsup.so sgi1.0
> [8] Apr 14 13:37:46 2002 0x2d614afa ----- libC.so.2 sgi2.0
> [9] Apr 14 13:36:48 2002 0xe58c9b39 ----- libc.so.1 sgi1.0
>
>
> It looks exactly like the output you listed. However, when I start up
> vmd, the little console window reports that it's using Mesa still.
>
> --
> Steve Killen <skille1_at_umbc.edu> 

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