From: Thomas C. Bishop (bishop_at_tulane.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 16:55:55 CDT

The problem appears to be w/ the nvidia drivers and possibly
permissions on
/dev/nvidia*
devices.

Everything works fine for root but not others.

This is something that's popped up before w/ nvidia drivers that I
thought was resolved but seems like however I installed then in
SuSE11.1 did not do the trick.

Tom

On Tuesday 08 September 2009, John Stone wrote:
> Tom,
> I'm quite puzzled about your display mode being set to a
> non-truecolor visual. Can you email me the output from the command
> "glxinfo", and from "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version" ? That
> should give me the information I need. Oh, and as Axel mentioned
> previously, it'd be helpful to upgrade to the released version of
> VMD 1.8.7.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:52:35PM -0500, Bishop, Thomas C wrote:
> > Vmd gives me this message after install 11.1 and then dies.
> >
> > (using yast2 w/ download.nvida.com for the nvidia
> > drivers/configuration as a check glx gears runs)
> >
> > ade 108% vmd
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
> > 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, 4 CPUs detected.
> > Info) Free system memory: 7437MB (94%)
> > Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> > ERROR) A TrueColor visual is required, but not available.
> > ERROR) The X server is not capable of displaying
> > double-buffered, ERROR) RGB images with a Z buffer. Exiting ...
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta5 (June 1, 2009)
> > Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
> >
> > the /var/log/messages has this to say
> > Sep 4 17:51:16 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13051] general
> > protection ip:5b5623 sp:7fff2b07a800 error:0 in
> > vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000] Sep 4 17:51:47 ade kernel:
> > vmd_LINUXAMD64[13066] general protection ip:5b5623
> > sp:7fff90e1fda0 error:0 in vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000] Sep 4
> > 17:53:14 ade kernel: vmd_LINUXAMD64[13136] general protection
> > ip:5b5623 sp:7fff7f3b3400 error:0 in
> > vmd_LINUXAMD64[400000+6d0000]

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