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From: Dallas B. Warren (Dallas.Warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 02:07:05 CDT

John,

> Dallas, are you using ATI or NVidia? I seem to remember you
> had an ATI laptop chipset or something? Just trying to
> remember what your specific case is.

Yeah, ATI. Wont be getting one of them again. Stupid drivers for
Linux.... ;-)

Issue currently is I decided to upgrade to RHEL 4, was using RHEL 3.
RHEL used XFree86 and I had an ATI driver that worked with VMD fine.
Something like the three most recent ATI drivers didn't work, but I had
one that did, so not too much of an issue there.

Anyway, with RHEL 4, they have swapped to Xorg. And ATI only has the
last three Xorg drivers available, all of which VMD crashes with. And I
believe even if they were available before that, someone told me that
there is some major problems for the older ATI Xorg versions or
something to that effect.

So that leaves me with the option of installing XFree86 and the
appropriate ATI driver that I know works, to get all the features. Or
hang with how things are currently and wait for the next version to come
out which hopefully will fix the problem.

Was just asking what was missing to see if it actually impacted what I
do with VMD for the most part. From what I can tell, not too much for
the general just having a look to see what is happening type of things.
With image generation etc may be an issue, but don't' have to do that
for awhile.

Haven't yet submitted a bug at ATI for this particular one, but have for
the last three or so that I have encountered.....

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Lecturer
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
+61 3 9903 9073
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