From: Bishop, Thomas C (bishop_at_tulane.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 17:52:35 CDT

Vmd gives me this message after install 11.1 and then dies.

(using yast2 w/ download.nvida.com for the nvidia drivers/configuration as a check glx gears runs)

ade 108% vmd
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
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, 4 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 7437MB (94%)
Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
ERROR) A TrueColor visual is required, but not available.
ERROR) The X server is not capable of displaying double-buffered,
ERROR) RGB images with a Z buffer. Exiting ...
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.

the /var/log/messages has this to say
Sep 4 17:51:16 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13051] general protection ip:5b5623 sp:7fff2b07a800 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]
Sep 4 17:51:47 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13066] general protection ip:5b5623 sp:7fff90e1fda0 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]
Sep 4 17:53:14 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13136] general protection ip:5b5623 sp:7fff7f3b3400 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]