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From: Robert Wohlhueter (bobwohlhueter_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2017 - 21:06:04 CDT

My my previous posting, I noted several error messages when I start a
new installation of vmd-1.9.3 (under Ubuntu 16.04, 54-bit, AND). That
posting is copoied below.

There I noted that the errors seemed to be innoucous. But as I feared,
they are not. One in particlular has come back to bite me: namely, "vmd:
/usr/lib/nvidia-375/libGL.so.1: no version information available
(required by vmd)".

For example, vmd is called in by the shell scrip "vmd_box_dims.sh", in
the line
"vmd -dispdev text -nt -e water_box_dims.tcl > water_box_dims.txt",
where it garners the same error message, and thereby crashes the script.

Is there any way to satisfy nvidia-375 driver's need for version number
(of the so, I guess)?

Thanks for your help,
Bob Wohlhueter

*************previous post*******************************************

just upgraded from vmd-1.9.2 to 1.9.3. Running on Ubuntus 16.04, AMD 64-bit.

  The new version seems to work (I havnen't put it through all of its
paces), but when I start up, I get a slew of error messages (except
pasted below).

The first error seems to be a shortcoming of NVIDIA GL libs; it may by
inocuous.
The second type of error (there are dozens of these, only the first two
shown) invoolve
the OptiXRenderer.

I'm not aware of any functional consequences of these errors. But one
doesn't like to be greeted by a bunch of error messages when starting a
program.

Can anyone explian/remedy whatever is going on here?

Bob Wohlhueter

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bobw_at_winter: ...plugins/noarch [66]> vmd &
[1] 13008
vmd
bobw_at_winter: ...plugins/noarch [67]> vmd:
/usr/lib/nvidia-375/libGL.so.1: no version information available
(required by vmd)
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
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) CPU features: SSE2 AVX FMA
Info) Free system memory: 24GB (77%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 660 Ti 7 SM_3.0 @ 0.98 GHz, 1.9GB RAM, KTO, AE1, ZCP
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this X server option. Most OpenGL drivers
Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTX 660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) 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)
Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
Info) Compiling 1 OptiX shaders on 1 target GPU...
ERROR) OptiXRenderer) ERROR: File not found (Details: Function "RTresult
_rtProgramCreateFromPTXFile(RTcontext, const char*, const char*,
RTprogram_api**)" caught exception:
/usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd-1.9.3/shaders/OptiXShaders.ptx) (OptiXRenderer.C:3898
ERROR) OptiXRenderer) ERROR: File not found (Details: Function "RTresult
_rtProgramCreateFromPTXFile(RTcontext, const char*, const char*,
RTprogram_api**)" caught exception:
/usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd-1.9.3/shaders/OptiXShaders.ptx) (OptiXRenderer.C:3934
...