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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 11:44:32 CDT

James,
  Due to a limitation with the Windows version of the Spacenavigator library
we use, I was unable to link it into the VMD builds that support CUDA which
requires a much newer version of the Microsoft compilers. The Spacenavigator
is fully supported in the non-CUDA build (built with the old compiler) however.
I'm working on addressing this for the next VMD release, but for the time being
you'll need to pick one or the other. As soon as I have a Windows CUDA build
that also has the Spacenavigator support linked in, I will post a note so you
can try it out.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:53:14PM -0400, James Ryley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I'm new to VMD, trying to set up a nice machine for its use, and I hate to
> raise what seems to be a perennial issue (though most of the previous
> posts seem to be about OS X) but is the SpaceNavigator 6DOF controller
> supposed to "just work" with VMD 1.9.1 in Windows?
>
>
>
> I'm running Win7 SP1, 64 bit, installed the SpaceNavigator, rebooted many
> times, relaunched VMD many time, and the SpaceNavigator works fine with
> its config and testing software, and it works in Google Earth. However, no
> device shows up in the control panel that I can identify as it (presumably
> not a problem since it does work with software aside from VMD, but I am
> not sure) and it does nothing in VMD. Perusal of the VMD documentation
> indicates that such support is built-in now, but the following URLs do not
> make it clear to me if anything has to be done to enable this:
>
>
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node34.html
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node36.html
>
>
>
> One of the other help files refers to .vmdsensors, but I am guessing this
> is a Linux-only file since I don't have such a file on my system.
>
>
>
> VMD is not detecting any joysticks, assuming that is what the
> SpaceNavigator would be (see start-up output below).
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
>
>
> ==========================================================
>
> Info) VMD for WIN32, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
>
> 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, 8 CPUs detected.
>
> Info) Free system memory: 4010MB (97%)
>
> Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
>
> Info) Detected 2 available CUDA accelerators:
>
> Info) [0] GeForce 210 2 SM_1.2 @ 1.40 GHz, 435MB RAM, KTO, OIO,
> ZCP
>
> Info) [1] GeForce 210 2 SM_1.2 @ 1.40 GHz, 435MB RAM, KTO, OIO,
> ZCP
>
> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2
>
> Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
>
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
>
> Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
>
> Info) No joysticks found. Joystick interface disabled.
>
> Info) Dynamically loaded 69 plugins in directory:
>
> Info) C:/Program Files (x86)/University of
> Illinois/VMD/plugins/WIN32/molfile
>
> vmd > Opening http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/ ...
>
> ==========================================================
>
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> James R
>
> 

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