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From: Leandro Martnez (leandromartinez98_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 15:20:54 CDT

Thanks, John, actually it seems that the OpenGL libraries have some problem,
since the glxinfo command returns:

name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext
  Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request: 17
  Current serial number in output stream: 17

I will check further how to solve this problem.
Thanks very much.
Leandro.

On 5/26/06, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> Yes, the LINUXAMD64 version is what you want to run if you have a
> 64-bit installation of Linux on an Opteron.
>
> What do you get if you run VMD with:
> vmd -dispdev text
>
> See the Linux release notes page, which includes instructions for
> following
> that step if the problem isn't already obvious at that point.
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/linuxrelnotes.html
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:01:30PM -0300, Leandro Martnez wrote:
> > I'm trying to install vmd on my opteron machine. I tried both the
> LINUXAMD64
> > and the LINUX executables, but both gave me the same error. The
> instalation
> > proceeds fine, but when trying to run vmd the console windows opens and
> > closes
> > very fast (I cannot see what is written in it) and nothing happens.
> >
> > If I run vmd with vmd -h I get a "Can't open display:" message after
> > the normal output, as shown below. I'm not sure if this is the same
> > error message that should appear in the console windows.
> >
> > I can run xterm normally from the same terminal and the DISPLAY
> > environment variable is set to :0.0
> >
> > I'm not even sure that the LINUXAMD64 is the correct executable
> > for Opterons, is it?
> >
> > Any idea of which could be the problem?
> > Thanks,
> > Leandro Martinez.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > %vmd -h
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
> > 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, 1 CPU detected.
> > Info) Available command-line options:
> > Info) -dispdev <win | cave | text | none> Specify display device
> > Info) -dist <d> Distance from origin to screen
> > Info) -e <filename> Execute commands in <filename>
> > Info) -python Use Python for -e file and subsequent text
> input
> > Info) -eofexit Exit when end-of-file occurs on input
> > Info) -h | --help Display this command-line summary
> > Info) -pos <X> <Y> Lower-left corner position of display
> > Info) -nt No title display at start
> > Info) -size <X> <Y> Size of display
> > Info) -startup <filename> Specify startup script file
> > Info) -m Load subsequent files as separate molecules
> > Info) -f Load subsequent files into the same molecule
> > Info) <filename> Load file using best-guess file type
> > Info) -<type> <filename> Load file using specified file type
> > Info) -args Pass subsequent arguments to text
> interpreter
> > Can't open display:
>
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