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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 17:07:16 CST

Hi,
  It seems that your computer has an old or bad GPU driver or perhaps it has
an open source driver installed rather than the NVIDIA-provided GPU driver.
If you have an NVIDIA driver installed, you should be able to check this
with the command:
  nvidia-smi

Alternately, you can try this command to query the driver version:
  cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

The OpenGL error you get seems to indicate that the OpenGL installation
has an issue of some kind as well. You can check that by running this
command:
  glxinfo

The output of these commands would look something like this:
% cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 375.10 Fri Oct 14 10:30:06 PDT 2016
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) (GCC)

% nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.10 Driver Version: 375.10 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro M6000 24GB Off | 0000:02:00.0 Off | Off |
| 25% 36C P8 18W / 250W | 20MiB / 24469MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 Quadro M6000 24GB Off | 0000:03:00.0 Off | Off |
| 25% 37C P0 61W / 250W | 0MiB / 24469MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 2 Quadro M6000 24GB Off | 0000:84:00.0 Off | Off |
| 0% 40C P0 61W / 250W | 0MiB / 24469MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 5425 G /usr/bin/Xorg 12MiB |
| 0 5990 G /opt/nice/dcv/lib64/dcvconfig 7MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 05:59:42PM -0500, spandu K wrote:
> Hello VMD users,
> It is a basic trivial question. Please excuse me for that.
> I have installed vmd-1.9.2
> usingA vmd-1.9.2.bin.LINUXAMD64-RHEL5.opengl.tar.gz on ubuntu 14.04.
> After the completion of installation, VMD is not working properly. Here is
> the error message.A
> I am running VMD locally.A
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.2 (December 29, 2014)
> Info) [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ A A A A A A A A A
> A A A A
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to [2]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu A A A A
> A A
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD: A A
> Info) A A Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual A A
> Info) A A Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 14662MB (91%)
> Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver
> Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date.
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> Warning) try disabling this X server option.A Most OpenGL drivers
> Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
> ERROR) The X server does not support the OpenGL GLX extension. A Exiting
> ...
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.2 (December 29, 2014)
> Info) Unable to create OpenGL window
> Thanks,
> Spandana
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 2. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu 

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