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From: Edivaldo Rodrigues (edivaldor831_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 15 2022 - 13:23:10 CDT

Hi John,

Thanks for reply!
1. Running vmd as an ordinary user, get the following:

edivaldo_at_osvaldo-2:~/Downloads/vmd-1.9.4a57/src$ vmd
Unknown variable modifier.

2. Runnin vmd as superuser, I get:

edivaldo_at_osvaldo-2:~/Downloads/vmd-1.9.4a57/src$ sudo vmd
rlwrap: Command not found.
Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.4a57 (April 27, 2022)
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, 6 CPUs.
Info) CPU features: SSE2 SSE4.1 AVX AVX2 FMA F16 HT
Info) Free system memory: 13GB (86%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator::
Info) [0] NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 3 SM_6.1 1.5 GHz, 2.0GB RAM SP32 KT AE2 ZC
Info) OpenGL renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/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 (32768x32768), 3-D (16384x16384x16384), Multitexture
(4)
Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
Info) Compiling OptiX shaders on 1 target GPU...
Info) Dynamically loaded 3 plugins in directory:
Info) /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
can't read "env(PSFGEN_BASEDIR)": no such variable
vmd >

Best,
Edivaldo

Em ter., 12 de jul. de 2022 às 19:16, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
escreveu:

> Hi,
> It would be very helpful if you could tell us more about your
> system. What shell are you using (bourne shell, bash, tcsh)?
> What startup messages did you get when you ran as superuser?
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 08:53:09AM -0300, Edivaldo Rodrigues wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When I try ro tun VMD in Debian, I get the following error message:
> >
> > â**Unknown variable modifier.â**
> >
> > Moreover, I can open VMD just as a superuser. But, even this way, it
> is
> > not working properly.
> >
> > Could you, please, let me know what I am missing?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Edivaldo Rodrigues
>
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> Bioinformatics
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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>