VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 18 2020 - 00:35:12 CST

Stefan,
  I have forwarded on your notes to Jonathan Lefman at NVIDIA,
and he will try and obtain assistance/suggestions for your student.
He or others may contact you and your student to followup and get
further important details.

Regarding paused VMD and pressing "enter" in the VMD text console:
  If you interact with the text console and don't press return,
it will (on Windows) freeze VMD waiting for input. This
is due to the behavior of Windows line-based console handling
vs. Unix character-based handling (which remains responsive even
with a half-typed command). If you see such behavior, pressing
enter should cure the issue unless you have a garbled command
partially entered.

Going forward I'm looking at integrating a different text console
manager library that would hopefully give Windows versions of VMD
the same overall behavior that Unix versions have always had,
but this remains future work at present.

Best,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:39:20AM +0100, Stefan Boresch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on the odd chance that someone has an idea:
>
> I am presently running a course in which I use VMD a bit, and students are
> expected to install it on their own hardware. This has worked well so
> far, on Linux, Mac and Windows, with here in Europe Win10 being the
> dominating OS.
>
> Yesterday I got a 'plea for help' from one student saying
> that suddently VMD is not starting up anymore on her Win10 laptop, though
> it worked before. I got some screenshots; the terminal window comes
> up, prints
>
> "mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver"
>
> and terminates. Restarting the machine, reinstalling VMD (both 1.9.3 and
> the new 1.9.4alpha) apparently has not helped. Since this isn't my
> hardware and since I don't have access to it because of the lockdown, this
> is all the info I have.
>
> I normally run VMD on my Linux workstation, though I also have it on a Win10
> laptop, with an NVIDIA card and all updates installed, where both vmd 1.9.3
> and 1.9.4alpha run fine.
>
> The one observation I can add from my own experience is that for me (on the
> Win10/Nvidia laptop) VMD comes up, but hangs for a while (the main menu
> is not operational, up to minutes). Hitting Enter or Ctrl-C in the terminal
> window usually helps.
>
> Any hints / suggestions to pass on welome, best regards,
>
> Stefan 

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