VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2013 - 10:57:29 CDT

Hi,
  I'm guessing that the software update has reverted your machine
to using one of the open source OpenGL video drivers, and that
the open source driver is (as usual) broken. What do you see when
you run these two commands:
   glxinfo | grep server
   glxinfo | grep client

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:27:08AM -0300, denilson_at_dqi.ufla.br wrote:
> Dear Felix,
>
> After the automatic actualizations carried out yesterday and this
> morning, It also happens to me when I try to open VMD 1.9.1 (or other
> programs like Chimera 1.7) on a Xubuntu 12.04.02 (64 bits) machine. In
> the /var/log/dpkg.log I could find that the programs upgraded during the
> automatic actualization were:
>
> 2013-04-18 16:37:29 upgrade libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:31 upgrade libdrm2:i386 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:35 upgrade libdrm-intel1:i386 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:36 upgrade libdrm-intel1 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:40 upgrade libdrm-nouveau1a:i386 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:41 upgrade libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:44 upgrade libdrm-radeon1:i386 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:45 upgrade libdrm-radeon1 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1
> 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:48 upgrade x11proto-randr-dev
> 1.4.0+git20120101.is.really.1.4.0-0ubuntu1~precise1
> 1.4.0+git20120101.is.really.1.4.0-0ubuntu1~precise2
> 2013-04-18 16:37:49 upgrade xserver-common 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.12
> 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.13
> 2013-04-18 16:37:50 upgrade xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.12
> 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.13
> 2013-04-19 09:44:40 upgrade language-selector-gnome 0.79.2 0.79.3
> 2013-04-19 09:44:42 upgrade language-selector-common 0.79.2 0.79.3
> 2013-04-19 09:44:44 upgrade openssh-client 1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1
> 1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1.1
> 2013-04-19 09:44:46 upgrade python-problem-report 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
> 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
> 2013-04-19 09:44:47 upgrade python-apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
> 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
> 2013-04-19 09:44:48 upgrade apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
> 2013-04-19 09:44:51 upgrade apport-gtk 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
> 2013-04-19 09:44:51 upgrade dnsmasq-base 2.59-4 2.59-4ubuntu0.1
> 2013-04-19 09:44:52 upgrade icedtea-netx-common 1.2-2ubuntu1.3
> 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
> 2013-04-19 09:44:53 upgrade icedtea-7-plugin 1.2-2ubuntu1.3
> 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
> 2013-04-19 09:44:55 upgrade icedtea-netx 1.2-2ubuntu1.3
> 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
>
> Any hints about the procedure to solve the problem will be welcome.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Denilson.
>
> Denilson F. Oliveira
> Laboratório de produtos Naturais
> Departamento de Química
> Universidade Federal de Lavras
> Caixa Postal 3037
> Lavras (A CIDADE DAS QUEIMADAS) - MG - BRASIL
> Fone: 55-35-3829-1623
> Fax: 55-35-3829-1271
> e-mail: denilson_at_dqi.ufla.br
>
> Em 19-04-2013 08:41, Felix Rausch escreveu:
> >Hello VMD users,
> >
> >this morning, I tried to start VMD as usual. But instead of the normal
> >startup, I got a black screen and shortly after that, the KDE login
> >page appears. It seems like, somehow, the KDE is restartet (not the
> >computer) when i try to open VMD. I already did a reinstall, but
> >without any effect.
> >It worked quite well at the beginning of the week and I didn't change
> >anything at the system since then. So I'm quite puzzled.
> >
> >I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 with a NVidia Quadro 4000 graphics card. The
> >NVidia driver version is 310.44. Please let me know if you need more
> >info.
> >
> >Before the screen turns black, I can get the following output from VMD:
> >
> >Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
> >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: 15070MB (94%)
> >Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
> >Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
> >Info) [0] Quadro 4000 8 SM_2.0 @ 0.95 GHz, 2.0GB RAM, KTO,
> >OIO, ZCP
> >
> >
> >Any help or hints would be very appreciated.
> >
> >Greetings,
> >Felix
> >
> >
> > 

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