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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 23 2021 - 13:42:35 CST

Hi,
  Are you able to run "glxgears" on the remote Linux system?
If not, then VMD won't be able to run remotely either. You need to
ensure that your remote X11 setup supports GLX, which is what VMD
uses for OpenGL display. Otherwise, you may want to look at using
VNC, VirtualGL, or other remote desktop solutions that support
OpenGL applications like VMD.

Best regards,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:20:39PM +0000, Prathit Chatterjee wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> I cannot export the display of VMD from remote linux server, from my new MacBook or a certain local Linux machine, but I could do it from windows machine.
>
> In the remote server, vmd-1.9.4a51 has been installed.
>
> I installed XQuartz in Mac, followed by the instructions from a previous thread of email (https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/28503.html).
>
> I run the command (as mentioned in the previous link, after quitting XQuartz) in my local host as follows: "defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_iglx -bool true".
> Even then, the error message is coming as follows:
>
> 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: GLXBadContext 0x0
> Info) OpenGL renderer: ErrorUnknown
> Info) Features:
> Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00105
> Info) Dynamically loaded 3 plugins in directory:
> Info) /home2/Prathit/apps/vmd-1.9.4a51/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0xa00001
> XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0x0
> XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0xa00105
>
> Any suggestions regarding the same will be very helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Prathit 

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