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Thanks for the reply...i had originally installed the binaries....never |
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built it from source...but it seems that I'm getting the same problem |
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rebuild as before. This inquiry is probably better directed towards ATI |
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or the makers of VMD, but it detects fireglx module, recognizes my card |
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even, but the console window just dies without the VMD block letter |
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display ever coming up. Other applications seem to run with rendering |
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just fine...I'm rather new at this linux stuff...i was wondering wat is |
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the best way to capture the console window output easily prior to its |
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premature exit? |
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best, |
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alden |
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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Alden Huang wrote: |
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>> thanks much for the VMD ebuild... I was curious, as I could not get this |
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>> to work when I had VMD installed manually, is there a way to run VMD |
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>> using a different OpenGL library, ie specifically the FireGL binaries |
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>> provided by ATI, rather than resorting to the software MesaGLX? |
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> Yep, there's a way to build it so that it uses libGL rather than trying |
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> to use libMesaGL or something silly like that -- in fact, there are |
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> binaries on their site that do exactly that already, and our ebuild also |
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> does it. |
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> The only thing you need to do on Gentoo to use a different libGL is |
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> switch your OpenGL implementation using opengl-update. |
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> HTH, |
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> Donnie |
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