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From: Vaidehi Doke (dokevaidehi_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 01:47:03 CDT

Thank you so much John for the very informative and knowledge improving
response.

I am very hopeful that in the near future OptiX-related components will be
available in VMD through WSL as you and your team might be on it already.

Thank you once again for clearing my doubts and confusions.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 10:31, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was away from email for a while, sorry for getting back to this slowly:
> As Josh postulated below, the WSL driver package doesn't yet contain a
> driver image that is completely comparable to a normal Linux driver
> package.
> In this case, the OptiX-related components aren't there yet. I would
> expect that this may change down the road, but we're not there yet.
>
> Best regards,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:23:15PM +0000, Vermaas, Josh wrote:
> > Hi Vaidehi,
> >
> >
> >
> > What about if you run nvidia-smi from within WSL? Admittedly I don't
> have
> > much WSL experience, but at least up to 20.04, the driver stack you
> got
> > alongside nvidia-cuda-toolkit was *ancient*, and may not have met the
> > minimum specs for LibOptiX. In 22.04, I'd hope this has been
> improved, but
> > maybe not!
> >
> >
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> >
> >
> > From: <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Vaidehi Doke
> > <dokevaidehi_at_gmail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 9:07 AM
> > To: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> > Subject: vmd-l: Unable to useTachyon-Optix renderer when VMD is
> installed
> > in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear users,
> >
> > I am trying to use VMD1.9.4a57 (April 27, 2022) in windows-11 laptop
> > having Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed. In WSL I have
> > installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and configured the VMD successfully.
> >
> >
> >
> > While running VMD, I am getting error about OptiXRenderer as shown
> below:
> >
> > I freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04LTS along with the latest NVIDIA
> driver
> > and nvidia-cuda-toolkit. Still I am geeting error about "too old
> NVIDIA
> > driver".
> >
> >
> >
> > Furthermore, there is no option for Tachyon-Optix renderer in the
> > rendering dropdown menu. (please see attached image below.)
> >
> >
> >
> > It will be great help if you guide me to compile and use VMD in WSL
> such
> > that I shall be able to generate high quality images using
> Tachyon-Optix
> > (GPU-accelerated) renderer.
> >
> >
> >
> > Details of GPU and GPU-driver in my system are as follows:
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Vaidehi Doke
>
>
>
>
>
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