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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 15:47:10 CDT

Hi,
  If you started VMD with "vmd -dispdev cave", you should only see
the VMD graphics window, there won't be any user interface windows.
If you want the user interface windows, you'll want to use:
  vmd -dispdev caveforms

In order to display the user interface windows somewhere, you'll normally
do this before you run VMD in CAVE mode:
  setenv DISPLAY someothermachine:0.0

On the console of "someothermachine", you'll have to do xhost +cavemachine
where "cavemachine" is the one driving the 6 CAVE displays. From there,
if all is well, you'll get all of the VMD user interface windows on
"someothermachine", and you'll get the graphics displayed on your 6 CAVE
walls driven by "cavemachine".

In order to verify that you've got all of this running correctly, send
me the output that VMD prints in your VMD text console when it starts up.
This should help me verify that you're starting VMD with the correct
options, and that it's initializing your CAVE correctly.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:35:10PM -0500, Hai-Jun Su wrote:
> Hi, John
>
> I still have one problem. VMD runs on our IRIX system. I used "vmd -dispdev
> cave" command. However there is no stereo image coming up. Our system is a
> CAVE with 6 walls. Each wall is equipped with two projects (one for left eye
> image, one for right eye image). The VMD window is just a single window. Is
> it possible to visualize pdb in system like that?
>
> Hai-Jun Su
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of
> John Stone
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:32 PM
> To: Hai-Jun Su
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: CAVE
>
>
> Hi,
> VMD 1.8.2 is an old version. The binaries we provide for VMD 1.8.2 were
> built on IRIX 6.5.x, so if you're running our binaries, this is the source
> of your problem. If you've compiled from source then there's still a
> possibility that you're running into a compiler or operating system
> version dependency since we did all of the development and testing of VMD
> 1.8.2 on the newer IRIX 6.5.x versions. Before you try running VMD in
> full-up CAVE mode, I strongly suggest that you put it through its paces
> running with a simple OpenGL window and make sure that works first. Once
> you get it working with the standard OpenGL display, then you can begin
> testing it in CAVE mode. If it won't run on your system in the normal
> OpenGL mode, then there's no way it'll run in CAVE mode since the CAVE
> renderer is a superset of the OpenGL renderer.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:20:07PM -0500, Hai-Jun Su wrote:
> > Hi, everyone
> >
> > I am trying to get vmd running on our C6 system. I got vmd complied on
> Irix
> > 6.2. However vmd crashed immediately after launching. The frustum window
> > flashed and then closed automatically. Here is the command I used
> >
> > vmd -dispdev cave
> >
> > Anyone knows the reasons? I have downloaded
> > vmd-1.8.2.bin.IRIX6.opengl.tar.gz. Thanks.
> >
> > Best,
> > Hai-Jun Su
>
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078