From: Robert Coridan (coridan_at_uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 13:51:29 CDT

Thanks much...that worked well.

-R

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:56:48 -0500
>From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: vmd-l: Error message disappears before I can
read it!
>To: Robert Coridan <coridan_at_uiuc.edu>
>Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
>Hi,
> This usually means that you've got bad file permissions on
>the video card device nodes. Double check that /dev nodes
for your
>video card have correct permissions, here's an example of
what they
>would typically look like on a multi-user NVidia-based linux box:
>
>ls -al nv*
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia0
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 1 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia1
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 2 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia2
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 3 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia3
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 4 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia4
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 5 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia5
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 6 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia6
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 7 Apr 18 15:01 nvidia7
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Apr 18 15:01 nvidiactl
>
>You may also want to double-check that you have the file
permissions
>on the VMD installation directory set correctly.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:21:35AM -0500, Robert Coridan wrote:
>> Hi--
>>
>> I'm trying to install VMD on a standard linux computer. It
>> works correctly for the root user. However, as a regular
>> user, when I try to run it, the only thing that happens is an
>> error message pops up and disappears before I can read it. I
>> believe it is coming from the permissions on the Open GL
>> libraries because VMD opens for everyone in text mode. I
>> would like to know what the error message says, though, so I
>> may get it running in the grapical mode.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob Coridan
>
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