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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 10:58:38 CDT

Oliver,
  The Linux builds of VMD don't support the CAVE, so there's no use in
trying -dispdev cave on the Prism at the moment. Since the executable
runs ok without OpenGL, it would appear that your Prism has libraries that
are compatible with the machine I biult the binary on, so now we need to
figure out what's up with this OpenGL issue. Can you run VMD in a debugger
like this, and tell me what happens:
  vmd -debug
  when the debugger prompt appears, just type "run"
  when VMD terminates, type "where" and email me all of the output...

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:34:37AM +0100, Oliver Otto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried this version on our Prism system and got the following results:
> - running ./vmd -dispdev win or ./vmd -dispdev cave creates two
> windows (vmd console and vmd OpenGL display) but both disappear after 1 sec
>
> - starting with ./vmd -dispdev text starts vmd in the console mode
> [root_at_prism2 bin]# ./vmd -dispdev text
> Info) VMD for LINUXIA64, version 1.8.4a5 (June 21, 2005)
> 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.
> vmd > q
> Info) VMD for LINUXIA64, version 1.8.4a5 (June 21, 2005)
> Info) Exiting normally.
>
> [root_at_prism2 bin]# uname -a
> Linux prism2 2.4.21-sgi305rp05060914_10173 #1 SMP Thu Jun 9 14:16:44 PDT
> 2005 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux
>
> Any idea why the OpenGL window disappears?
>
> Oliver
>
> John Stone wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > I've built a test version of VMD for Linux running on Itanium.
> >In theory it will work on any reasonably current Linux distribution
> >running on Itanium, but I've only tested it on the NCSA Teragrid
> >thus far. It ought to work on the SGI Prism, Altix, and similar
> >machines too, so feel free to give it a spin:
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/vmd-1.8.4a5.bin.LINUXIA64.opengl.tar.gz
> >
> >A few other test binaries are also posted here as time allows:
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >
> >
>
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