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From: Kshatresh Dutta Dubey (kshatresh_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 05:56:41 CDT

Dear Users ,

    I have installed vmd 1.9.1 on centos 7.0. It is showing several error
during start up in vmd shell and some of the features like extension is
missing. Following is the log of vmd start:
 Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, 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, 12 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 29679MB (92%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
CUDA error: invalid device symbol, CUDAClearDevice.cu line 62
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 680 8 SM_3.0 @ 1.14 GHz, 2.0GB RAM, KTO, OIO, ZCP
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this optional X server feature.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(16) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
ERROR) Tk startup error: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name
"BACKGROUND"
ERROR) Could not read the vmd initialization file -
ERROR) source {/usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd/vmdinit.tcl}
ERROR) can't invoke "wm" command: application has been destroyed
ERROR) The VMDDIR environment variable is set by the startup
ERROR) script and should point to the top of the VMD hierarchy.
ERROR) VMD will continue with limited functionality.
ERROR) invalid command name "vmd_load_extension_packages"

Please help me to solve this issue. Thanks in advance. 

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Regards
Kshatresh