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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2014 - 10:22:21 CDT

Hi,
  VMD can't directly talk to the Falcon, instead, it communicates
with VRPN, and VRPN takes care of directly communicating with the
Falcon. From your note it wasn't entirely clear if the issue is
that VRPN can't see the Falcon, or if VMD can't see VRPN. If the
problem is that VRPN can't see the Falcon, then I will have to defer
to the expertise of others here that have used the VRPN servers with
the Falcon and see what suggestions they have.

If the problem is that VMD can't talk to VRPN, then the most likely issue
is that we need to get you a VMD binary that is compiled against a newer
version of VRPN, because previous VMD binaries were compiled against an
old VRPN version that is now out of date. If this is the problem, I can
help you get this done, as it is on my TODO list for the new VMD 1.9.2
release, and it would be great to have people test it out.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:07:29PM +0300, George Patargias wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering whether VMD can be configured to communicate with the
> Novint Falcon haptic if the latter is controlled with the Windows drivers
> provided by Novint.
>
> I have compiled and installed VRPN on my Linux desktop but for some reason
> the VRPN server doesn't recognize it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
>
> Dr. George Patargias
> Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> Biomedical Research Foundation
> Academy of Athens
> 4, Soranou Ephessiou
> 115 27
> Athens
> Greece
>
> Office: +302106597568 

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