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From: Steven F. Killen (skille1_at_gl.umbc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 16:23:35 CST

Yes, that's exactly it; the Mesa libs are correctly loading on the Linux
box. I was under the impression that it would run on the IRIX box
and just forward the graphics--shows how little I know about X forwarding
over SSH. :)

Thanks for bearing with me.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, John Stone wrote:

>
> 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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Steve Killen <skille1_at_umbc.edu>