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From: Irene Newhouse (einew_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2012 - 01:24:29 CDT

The latest Centos has an X11 driver called nouveau. It's supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's incompatible with VMD, or at least it was about 6 months ago when my husband & I upgraded our Centos installations. You have to disable & uninstall nouveau & replace it with the graphics drivers that match your board [nvidia in our case]. After that, VMD runs just fine. If you google, 'Centos 6.2 disable nouveau' is one of the autofill options google spits out & if you choose it, there's lots of hits. Looks like more than just the VMD community has this problem:-). That's how we learned what we had to do. Maybe you're running into this trap. Irene Newhouse> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:15:48 -0500
> From: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> To: gurbulakoguz_at_yahoo.com
> CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: vmd 1.9.1 Centos
>
>
> Hi,
> Axel covered the details, but the short description is that the normal
> VMD builds require a full X-windows installation, working OpenGL drivers,
> and C++ libraries etc. If your cluster installation doesn't contain X-windows
> libraries, then the normal VMD builds will not run. Your options in such a
> case are either to compile VMD to run purely in text mode (no graphics,
> no graphical interfaces), and use it purely through the scripting interfaces.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:04:08AM -0700, oguz gurbulak wrote:
> > Dear John,
> > Thanks for your reply and interest. I did a lot of trial. I think there
> > are some shortcomings related to the installation. Could you please share
> > the name of libraries which are essential and suitable for VMD 1.9.1 and
> > your installation procedure for VMD ? I will again try to install VMD to
> > Centos linux cluster. So your information will be very useful for me.
> > Best regards.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> > To: oguz gurbulak <gurbulakoguz_at_yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: vmd-l: vmd 1.9.1 Centos
> >
> > Hi,
> > There should be no special procedure for CentOS. VMD should work
> > fine out of the box assuming you have the normal libraries installed
> > on your CentOS machine. I run CentOS 6 on my laptop and VMD ran
> > immediately
> > with no special installation when I had first installed it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:12:29AM -0700, oguz gurbulak wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I want to install vmd-1.9.1.bin.LINUXAMD64.opengl.tar version to
> > Centos
> > > linux 64 bit cluster. I searched for any installation procedure that
> > is
> > > for centos linux , but I couldn't find any document or installation
> > guide.
> > > What should I do respectively when I install vmd for centos ? Could
> > you
> > > please help me to install vmd 1.9.1 into centos 64 bit ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> >
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> > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078
>
> --
> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078