VMD-L Mailing List

From: Thomas Lemmin (thomas.lemmin_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 09:33:07 CDT

The currently installed version of nvidia drivers is: 185.18.14;

VMD start up message:
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.7beta1 (April 29, 2009)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 15581MB (97%)
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 4600/PCI/SSE2
Info) Features: MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
Info) X-Windows ClientMessage-based Spaceball device available.

On 6/8/09, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can you tell me what NVIDIA driver version you're using and
> provide the VMD startup messages that are printed in the text console?
> That will help track down what's going on there.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:54:04PM +0200, Thomas Lemmin wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick answer.
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that I set the environment variable
>> VMDPREFERSTEREO=1 and export VMDPREFERSTEREO as described in the VMD in
>> notes.
>>
>> The crystal eyes were working when I was using Debian etch, but since the
>> update to lenny.... it does not work anymore. The GPU is a NVIDIA Quadro
>> FX
>> 4600. This should be powerful enough.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Have you set the environment variable VMDPREFERSTEREO as described
>> > in the VMD Linux release notes? Most GPUs don't have enough video
>> > memory (or video memory bandwidth) to allow both stereo and antialiasing
>> > simultaneously, so you have to tell VMD that you'd rather have stereo
>> > than antialiasing. Give that a try and let us know if you need more
>> > assistance.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > John Stone
>> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Thomas Lemmin wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > > I am trying to use crystal eyes with VMD. But when I switch on the
>> > > stereo
>> > > vision, VMD display splits into two images (too far apart for stereo
>> > > vision). And the crystal eyes emitter does not turn on.
>> > >
>> > > I am using a Debian lenny OS and CRT LaCie electron blue 22.
>> > >
>> > > Thomas Lemmin
>> > >
>> > > xorg.conf file:
>> > >
>> > > # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
>> > > # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister_at_builder62) Thu Feb 5
>> > > 00:09:30 PST 2009
>> > >
>> > > # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
>> > > # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister_at_builder62) Thu Feb 5
>> > > 00:08:50 PST 2009
>> > >
>> > > Section "ServerLayout"
>> > > Identifier "Layout0"
>> > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>> > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "Files"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "Module"
>> > > Load "dbe"
>> > > Load "extmod"
>> > > Load "type1"
>> > > Load "freetype"
>> > > Load "glx"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "ServerFlags"
>> > > Option "Xinerama" "0"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "InputDevice"
>> > >
>> > > # generated from default
>> > > Identifier "Mouse0"
>> > > Driver "mouse"
>> > > Option "Protocol" "auto"
>> > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>> > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>> > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "InputDevice"
>> > >
>> > > # generated from default
>> > > Identifier "Keyboard0"
>> > > Driver "kbd"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "Monitor"
>> > > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
>> > > Identifier "Monitor0"
>> > > VendorName "Unknown"
>> > > ModelName "LCA electr22b2"
>> > > HorizSync 30.0 - 121.0
>> > > VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
>> > > ModeLine "1280x960" 179.000 1280 1376 1520 1760 960 961 964
>> > 1017
>> > > -hsync +vsync
>> > > ModeLine "1024x768" 113.300 1024 1096 1208 1392 768 769 772
>> > > 814
>> > > -hsync +vsync
>> > > ModeLine "1152x864" 143.500 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868
>> > > 915
>> > > -hsync +vsync
>> > > ModeLine "800x600" 68.200 800 848 936 1072 600 601 604 636
>> > -hsync
>> > > +vsync
>> > > ModeLine "768x576" 62.600 768 816 896 1024 576 577 580 611
>> > -hsync
>> > > +vsync
>> > > ModeLine "640x480" 43.200 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 509
>> > -hsync
>> > > +vsync
>> > > Option "DPMS"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "Device"
>> > > Identifier "Device0"
>> > > Driver "nvidia"
>> > > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>> > > BoardName "Quadro FX 4600"
>> > > Option "Stereo" "3"
>> > > Option "NvaGP" "1"
>> > > EndSection
>> > >
>> > > Section "Screen"
>> > >
>> > > # Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x960_100 +0+0; CRT:
>> > > 1024x768_100
>> > > +0+0; CRT: 1280x960 +0+0"
>> > > Identifier "Screen0"
>> > > Device "Device0"
>> > > Monitor "Monitor0"
>> > > DefaultDepth 16
>> > > Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "False"
>> > > SubSection "Display"
>> > > Modes "1280x960_100"
>> > > EndSubSection
>> > > EndSection
>> >
>> > --
>> > 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/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/>
>> > Fax: 217-244-6078
>> >
>
> --
> 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
>