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From: James Ryley (james_at_ryley.com)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 12:25:12 CDT

Thanks John, I'll keep the CUDA and wait for the SpaceNavigator to work!

Sincerely,
James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:45 PM
> To: James Ryley
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: SpaceNavigator on Win7 64 bit
>
>
> 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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