Unable to create OpenGL window on Gentoo prefix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vmd 2. vmd Actual Results: Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.7 (August 11, 2010) Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd@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, 2 CPUs detected. Info) Free system memory: 1134MB (56%) Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature. 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 LINUX, version 1.8.7 (August 11, 2010) Info) Unable to create OpenGL window. Expected Results: Opening VMD window. $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.01.15553-prefix (prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-4.4.4, unavailable, 2.6.34 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-slackware-13.1.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:45:56 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.51.0.10 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r00.2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64-linux" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/danne/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-s -j3" PKGDIR="/home/danne/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/home/danne/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/danne/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/home/danne/gentoo/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pcre perl pppd prefix python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Same issue with molmol, pymol, glxgears, so basically with all opengl apps.
Which kind of grafics are you using? I fixed this issue by placing the system nvidia drivers into the prefix.
This should be in the tree.
