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From: Wei Liu (wei.liu_at_biosci.ki.se)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2006 - 18:52:07 CDT

Dear John Stone,

Thanks for your quick response. The graphic card installed in my computer is
ATI FireGL V3100. The following the VMD startup message.

Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 1 CPU detected.
Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
Info) Features: RN MDE MTX PP PS
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), Multitexture (8)
XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
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Hopefully you could help me to solve this problem.

Wei

On Saturday 12 August 2006 11:40 am, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Which video chipset and driver are you using on your machine?
> This sounds to me like a buggy graphics driver. If you can email
> me the VMD startup message that will be helpful in determining what's
> happening on your machine.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:23:58PM -0400, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am a new user of VMD and I just installed the precompiled version of
> > VMD on Mandriva Linux 2006. When I start the program by typing "vmd",
> > error messages appear in the vmd console window as the following.
> >
> > XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
> > error) 0x30000ad
> >
> > and
> >
> > XRequest.143: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
> > error) 0x44
> >
> > I can still load my pdb file and display it in VMD opengl window as
> > lines, but if I choose the drawing method as newcartoon, the program will
> > shut down automatically. Does anybody meet such a problem? Any
> > suggestions will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Wei Liu