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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 12:58:52 CST

Jerry,
  Interesting, if you and Michel find a general cure for this problem
you ran into that'd be good to know, since I suspect there will be a lot
of other people testing out the 64-bit x86_64 VMD binaries in the next
year, and most will likely want to use MSMS if at all possible. As a rule
of thumb I _always_ tell people to get MSMS to use with VMD, so do keep us
informed.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:49:18PM -0600, Jerry Ebalunode wrote:
> Hi John,
> I finally figured out why I couldn't get the MSMS program to work alone or
> even work with VMD using the socketport option. First, because I was using my
> new Gentoo Linux Athlon 64 workstation in a full 64 bit linux environment, I
> could not just copy the dynamically linked MSMS I installed on my older 32
> bit linux work station. This verison of MSMS ( about 2 years old) required
> some 32 bit glibc libraries. To fix this problem I contacted Dr. Sanner about
> the availablity of a statically linked MSMS binary for linux. Well he told me
> that the current ones present at there download site are statically linked.
> After installation, I have being trying to get them to run using the
> socketports option, without any success. This weekend I installed a secondary
> 32 bit environment under my original 64 bit environment (i.e., glibc 32 bit
> and 64 bit in the same box ) and out of curiousity I installed my two year
> old MSMS binary which is dependent on the 32 bit glibc libraries. Amazingly,
> MSMS worked with the socketport option likea charm. So the problem wasn't
> with my platform but with the newer MSMS binaries. However, these new set of
> binaries work fine if you are not using sockport option. This observation
> might be the reason why we could not use the MSMS along with vmd on the DEC
> ALPHA workstation which we reported last year (i.e. ports could not be
> opened). I guess the way the new statically linked MSMS binaries might be
> the cause of these problems. Just want to let you know and I am CCing this
> e-mail to Dr. Sanner
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Jerry Ebalunode
> Graduate Research Assistant
> RM 402F Houston Science Center
> Phone: 713-743-8367
> Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry
> University of Houston
> 4800 Calhoun Road
> Houston, TX 77204 

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