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From: Remya Ann (remya.mathewskl_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2017 - 03:29:44 CDT

Hi,
Thanks for the replies. The driver update was not done correctly. I purged
nvidia and installed a lower version nvidia-331 and rebooted and it worked
fine. I did the update since my Snapshot renderer was pushing the images to
a corner. Now that has been corrected too. Thanks for the support!

On 23 August 2017 at 21:07, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Are you able to run "glxgears" on your machine? If not, then you'll need
> to ensure that your driver update was done correctly. The indications from
> the VMD startup messages are that the graphics software stack on your
> machine
> is inconsistent, which is preventing VMD from being able to create
> graphics-accelerated OpenGL windows on your system.
>
> Best regards,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 04:22:36PM +0530, Remya Ann wrote:
> > Hi this is what I get when i run the "vmd" command in the terminal
> after
> > an installation of nvidia-375. It doesn't open up the GUI window.
> Could
> > you please help me with this. I currently use VMD-1.9.3 on a ubuntu
> 16.04
> > version.
> >
> > vmd
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64: /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libGL.so.1: no
> > version information available (required by
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64)
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
> > Info)
> > [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
> > Info) Email questions and bug reports to
> > [2]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu         Â
> > Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:Â Â
> > Info)   Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual Â
> > Info)Â Â Â Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> > Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Info) Multithreading available, 16 CPUs detected.
> > Info)Â Â CPU features: SSE2 AVX
> > Info) Free system memory: 26GB (82%)
> > Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> > 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.
> > ERROR) A TrueColor visual is required, but not available.
> > ERROR) The X server is not capable of displaying double-buffered,
> > ERROR) RGB images with a Z buffer.  Exiting ...
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
> > Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Remya
> > --
> > Remya Ann Mathews K
> > Doctoral Scholar
> > Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Lab
> > Department of Chemical Engineering
> > Indian Institute of Technology Madras
> > Chennai - 600 036, TamilNadu, India
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> > 2. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 

-- 
Remya Ann Mathews K
Doctoral Scholar
Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Lab
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - 600 036, TamilNadu, India