From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 22 2011 - 05:17:34 CDT

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Ismail, Mohd F. <farid_at_ou.edu> wrote:
> I don't know what happened, but this time the install works fine.  I must have made a mistake somewhere.
>
> Another question I have is, in another system, I have Nvidia GPUs, but if I don't want VMD to use them to reserve for computation.  Is there a way to start VMD without making it use the Nvidia GPUs?

yes, set the environment variable VMDNOCUDA before launching VMD.

axel.

> Thank you.
>
> --Farid
> ________________________________________
> From: John Stone [johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:22 PM
> To: Ismail, Mohd F.
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Non-cuda version of VMD on Linux?
>
> Farid,
>  The CUDA version should work fine even if you don't have an NVIDIA card.
> Let us know if you have trouble running it for some reason.  If so,
> please try running it like this and let us know what happens:
>  vmd -dispdev text
>
> Cheers,
>  John Stone
>  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:02:01AM +0000, Ismail, Mohd F. wrote:
>> Is there a way to get a non-cuda version of vmd on Linux like the Windows version?  I have a machine with only integrated Matrox 200w chipset.
>>
>> --Farid
>
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.