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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2015 - 07:29:56 CST

Hi,
  What output do you get from this command:
  cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:01:00PM +0530, anu chandra wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my laptop and NVIDIA GeForce 710M graphics card.
> I have installed VMD recently and when I start vmd, the console shows-up
> following error.
>
> ***************************************************************************
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.2 (December 29, 2014)
> 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, 4 CPUs detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 3354MB (87%)
> Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver
> Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date.
> Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
> Warning) try disabling this X server option. Most OpenGL drivers
> Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
> Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce 710M/PCIe/SSE2
> Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
> Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)
> Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> Info) /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> vmd > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.2 (December 29, 2014)
> Info) Exiting normally.
> ************************************************************************************
>
> I have installed the Nvidia driver and Ubuntu detect the card properly. The
> Systems details shows the same.
>
> When I did cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version, it shows as below..
>
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 331.113 Mon Dec 1
> 21:08:13 PST 2014
> GCC version: gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
>
> When I diid glxinfo | grep OpenGL, it shows
>
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 710M/PCIe/SSE2
> OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 331.113
> OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30 NVIDIA via Cg
> compiler
> OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
> OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
> OpenGL core profile extensions:
> OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.113
> OpenGL shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
> OpenGL context flags: (none)
> OpenGL profile mask: (none)
> OpenGL extensions:
>
>
> Can anybody help me to figure out why VMD could not able detect the
> graphics card?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Anu 

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