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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 23 2009 - 09:52:29 CDT

Thomas,
  The components you need to be concerned with are libGL*.so
shared libraries on both local and remote systems, the display drivers on
the machine doing the displaying, and the X11 windowing system itself on
the machine doing the displaying.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:22:28PM +0200, Thomas Lemmin wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for you reply. I tried to update X and OpenGL, with no success.
> However I noticed, that if I use vmd in remote from some machines, it
> works correctly.
> I am using Debian, and if I ssh to an other Debian machine, vmd works
> perfectly.
> Whereas If I connect to machine with other OS (Red hat, Suse), get
> this display problem.
>
> Any ideas? Libraries I should check?
>
> Thomas
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >  This is caused by bugs in either your X server or the OpenGL drivers.
> > To correct it, you'll have to try updating X or the OpenGL drivers to
> > different versions that don't exhibit the problem.  Local X display and
> > remote display exercise slightly different code paths in the windowing
> > system server and related drivers, and so this is why you're still able
> > to run VMD locally without trouble, but encounter problems when displaying
> > remotely.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  John Stone
> >  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:51:44AM +0200, Thomas Lemmin wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am having some trouble with vmd display when I am using it in remote
> >> (ssh -X). Since I updated my kernel (and Nvidia drivers), I am no
> >> longer able to display correctly my pdb file.
> >> ->Line representation: only single atoms are displayed
> >> ->Cartoon and Ribbons  work for displaying proteins, but not new
> >> Cartoon nor new Ribbon
> >>
> >> However, vmd works perfectly in local. And this is not related to the
> >> remote installation, because VMD still works on other computers (not
> >> updated).
> >>
> >> Kernel:
> >> 2.6.26-2-amd64
> >> Driver:
> >> Nvidia Geforce 9800 version 1.0.7
> >>
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >
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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078