Re: [gentoo-science] New Vmd ebuild in ~x86

[Donnie Berkholz]

Alden Huang wrote:
> Thanks for the reply...i had originally installed the binaries....never
> built it from source...but it seems that I'm getting the same problem
> rebuild as before. This inquiry is probably better directed towards ATI
> or the makers of VMD, but it detects fireglx module, recognizes my card
> even, but the console window just dies without the VMD block letter
> display ever coming up. Other applications seem to run with rendering
> just fine...I'm rather new at this linux stuff...i was wondering wat is
> the best way to capture the console window output easily prior to its
> premature exit?

If you just type vmd from an open terminal, you should get some output.

Do you have direct rendering working? Try `glxinfo | grep direct`.

Thanks,
Donnie