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From: Ronald Salesky (rsalesky_at_unm.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 02 2009 - 11:42:51 CDT

Hi John,

Thanks so much that did the trick! I have a copy of
ModelSim on my machine (for debugging programmable logic
designs, I was an electronics engineer before the
wonderful world of computational chemistry).

Sure enough, there they were in the PATH variable and TCL
scripts are used. And it's put out by Mentor Graphics,
you'd think they'd know better...

Best regards,

Ron

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:26:13 -0500
  John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> From your description, it sounds like you have another
> package on your machine that has installed a conflicting
>version
> of the Tcl/Tk libraries, and has put their (conflicting)
>versions
> into the global Windows DLL search path such that they
>override
> the ones VMD intends to use. You can determine if this
>is the case
> by searching for other Tcl/Tk libs like this:
> cd c:\
> dir /s tcl*.dll
>
> If you see any other than the ones in the VMD
>installation
> directory, then that's a likely cause of your problem.
> The other package(s) that have done this are at fault,
>as
> they should _not_ be putting their own DLLs into the
>global
> library search path. In any case, try that out and let
>me know
> what turns up. I am working on making a special build
>of VMD
> that uses statically linked Tcl/Tk libs specifically to
>avoid
> this problem which has become much more prevalent
>recently due to
> the actions of a few poorly packaged applications that
>are popular
> in our field...
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 08:57:00PM -0600, Ronald Salesky
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed a copy of VMD for my home laptop and VMD
>> crashes right after launch. The OS is WinXP media center
>> edition. System memory 1 GB. I've tried the suggestions
>>to
>> update the graphics driver w/ no improvement. I also set
>> the environment variable VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS to 1 also w/
>>no
>> improvement.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> PS: graphics driver is Intel 945GM Express chipset. Not
>> the world's hottest laptop, but I just want to go
>>through
>> the manuals at home to increase my VMD knowledge for the
>> real research at university.
>
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