From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 14:56:10 CDT

Ryan,
  Are you able to run either 'glxinfo' or 'glxgears' on this system in
the same way that you tried running VMD? If so, do they work, or do they
fail?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 01:50:53PM -0600, Ryan P. Steele wrote:
> Hi, folks -
>
> We seem to be having an issue with Mac users when running a server-side
> VMD window.\001 This version of VMD is a 'common' installation for all
> users on a cluster.\001 With Windows or all tested Linux terminals, things
> work fine when running it through tunneled x connections.\001 However, the
> recent version of XQuartz on OS X does not work.\001
>
> Upon startup, VMD gives the error copied below (the errors shown here are
> for a user-installed version, but the common version behaves the same
> way).\001 A locally installed version on the same Mac machine works fine,
> and the server version, when run in text-only mode, also works fine.\001
> It seems as though the x-tunneled graphics are not playing nicely with
> XQuartz.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks -
> Ryan
>
> > vmd
> /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/common/home/u0764443/mybin/vmd2/lib/vmd_LINUXAMD64:
> /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1: no version information available (required by
> /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/common/home/u0764443/mybin/vmd2/lib/vmd_LINUXAMD64)
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
> Info) [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to [2]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info)\001\001\001 Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info)\001\001\001 Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1,
> 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 32 CPUs detected.
> Info)\001\001 CPU features: SSE2 AVX
> Info) Free system memory: 43GB (67%)
> NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
> XRequest.149: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x0
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
> XRequest.149: 0 0x0
> Info) OpenGL renderer: ErrorUnknown
> Info)\001\001 Features: STENCIL
> Info)\001\001 GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00009
> NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found
> NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info)
> /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/common/home/u0764443/mybin/vmd2/lib/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
> XRequest.149: 0 0x0
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00009
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
> XRequest.149: 0 0x0
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00009
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
> XRequest.149: 0 0x0
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00009
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
>
> (repeats thousands of times...)
>
> --
> ==========================
> Ryan P. Steele
> Assistant Professor
> University of Utah
> Dept. of Chemistry
> 315 South 1400 East
> Salt Lake City, UT 84112
> Phone : 801-587-3800
> Office: Thatcher 4611
> ==========================
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 2. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

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