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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 10:20:11 CST

Hi,
  This is a known problem with the currently available nVidia drivers.
I've reported the problem to them, and they say that the problems are fixed
in new drivers that haven't been made publically available yet. For the time
being, I'd suggest reverting to one of the older driver versions such as 7676
that worked well with GLSL. I'm hoping that nVidia will release the updated
drivers soon...

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:07:53PM +0100, Mario Valle wrote:
> I just tried VMD 1.8.3 on my new workstation (linux suse 10.0), but setting
> rendermode to GLSL produces a really funny result for CPK representation:
> phsychedelic lighting, no spheres and normals reversed for cylinders.
> I suspect that everything starts from the following startup warnings:
>
>
> Info) Multithreading available, 4 CPUs detected.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 6800 GS/PCI/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) RN MDE CVA NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
> Info) OpenGL fragment shader compilation log:
> Info) (160) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function
> exp2
> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
> Info) OpenGL shader linkage log:
> Info) Fragment info
> Info) -------------
> Info) (160) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
> Info) <stdlib>(4596) : warning C7011: implicit cast from "int" to "float"
> Info) OpenGL fragment shader compilation log:
> Info) (194) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function
> exp2
> Info) OpenGL shader linkage log:
> Info) Fragment info
> Info) -------------
> Info) (194) : warning C7506: OpenGL does not define the global function exp2
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
>
> My fault or VMD fault? I tried also 1.8.4b11 but same error.
>
> Thanks for the help!
> mario
>
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