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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 13:25:41 CDT

Phil,
  Did you add an analogfly mode in your VRPN configuration? You'll
need one in order to use it as a pointer in VMD. I've attached one of
our old magellan VRPN config setups to this email. Take a look at it
and let me know if you need more help setting it up. I've also attached
a .vmdsensors file that should work for you. The AnalogFly config line
below is probably all you were missing from your VRPN config:
  vrpn_Tracker_AnalogFly Tracker0 10.0 differential

Let me know if you need more help,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:09:11PM +0100, Philip Fowler wrote:
> Hi all (again),
>
> We have a Magellan space mouse working with a compiled version of VMD with
> VRPN enabled (and a bunch of other things like Tcl etc).
>
> Except it ain't working.
>
> (1) .vmdsensors is set-up in our installed directory with the following
> uncommented
>
> device magellantracker vrpntracker://local/Tracker0
> scale 10
> rot left 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0
> device magellanbuttons vrpnbuttons://local/Magellan0
>
> (we have also tried localhost)
>
> (2) when we launch vrpn_server we get some beeps and
>
> Reading from config file vrpn.cfg
> Opening vrpn_Tracker_AnalogFly: Tracker0 with update rate 60
> Opening vrpn_Magellan: Magellan0 on port /dev/spacemouse, baud 9600
>
> (3) However, when we then set VMD going there is no communication between the
> two. No further updates of the vrpn_server and Graphics | Tools does not seem
> to help.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --Phil
>
>
>
> --
> Philip Fowler,
> PhD Student
> Centre for Computational Science,
> UCL Chemistry 

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