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From: Sabuj Pattanayek (sabuj.pattanayek_at_Vanderbilt.Edu)
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 13:21:48 CDT

Hi,

Yes, I have found that 1.0.6629 for Quadros is the only version which
doesn't crash vmd and pymol on x86 (32bit) systems.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6629/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run

Hope that helps,
Sabuj Pattanayek

Karsten Suhre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the problem you report with the NVIDIA driver only limitted to x86_64
> systems?
>
> My AMD Athlon 2400 bi-proc (32 bit SuSE 9.2 Nvidia Quadro vers. 1.0-7174) also
> crashes whenever I switch from Line mode to anything rendered. Does this mean
> that downgrading of the driver is the only solution?
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Karsten.
>
>
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:18, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The latest x86_64 driver for linux used in a native 64bit environment
>>(kernel & system & vmd64):
>>
>>NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174
>>
>>..seems to work fine and doesn't have the problems that the 7xxx 32 bit
>>drivers have with 32 bit systems and vmd-32bit. In other words I can
>>recreate that problem if I use vmd32 in the 64bit environment.
>>Surprisingly the same is true for pymol64 and pymol32.
>>
>>You said you were running XP Pro on the athlon64 machine correct? You
>>may qualify for upgrading to winxp64
>>(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx). Then
>>maybe you can try the 64bit nvidia driver? Or switching to linux64 may
>>be an option.
>>
>>..Sabuj Pattanayek
>>
>>Carlos Simmerling wrote:
>>
>>>Hi John,
>>>I just got this sort of figured out but didn't know how to mail a
>>>reply to my own post. You're right, it's the nvidia drivers,
>>>not the athlon64. I had been using 71.84.
>>>
>>>I read another post about issues with the linux driver and quadros
>>>so I tried both a new leaked driver (76.50) and an old one (67.22).
>>>76.50 did not work but 67.22 does, so I think it might be the same
>>>quad strips problem you mentioned.
>>>thanks a lot for the quick reply!
>>>Carlos
>>>
>>>===================================================================
>>>Carlos L. Simmerling, Ph.D.
>>>Associate Professor Phone: (631) 632-1336
>>>Center for Structural Biology Fax: (631) 632-1555
>>>Stony Brook University Web: http://comp.chem.sunysb.edu/carlos
>>>Stony Brook, NY 11794-5115 E-mail: carlos.simmerling_at_stonybrook.edu
>>>===================================================================
>>>
>>>John Stone wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Carlos,
>>>> What version of the nVidia drivers are you running on that
>>>>machine? Do you experience a crash with any other representation?
>>>>I've been hearing of some problems with nVidia drivers recently
>>>>from around the molecular graphics community (not just VMD), it's
>>>>possible that you're a victim of this recent phenomina.
>>>>What does VMD print in the text console when it first
>>>>starts up? If you can send me the startup messages, that would
>>>>be very helpful.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>> John Stone
>>>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:13:25AM -0400, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>VMD is working fine on my pentium 4 PC under XP.
>>>>>I just got an Athlon64 PC (with XP) and a quadro FX1100.
>>>>>VMD works ok, but when I add a licorice representation it
>>>>>always crashed. The same thing works fine on my
>>>>>other (Intel) PCs under windows.
>>>>>
>>>>>Has anyone else seen this? I couldn't find anything
>>>>>in the archives, and the amd64 binaries seem to be for
>>>>>unixes only.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any ideas? I can send more info if it would help.
>>>>>Carlos
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>===================================================================
>>>>>Carlos L. Simmerling, Ph.D.
>>>>>Associate Professor Phone: (631) 632-1336
>>>>>Center for Structural Biology Fax: (631) 632-1555
>>>>>Stony Brook University Web: http://comp.chem.sunysb.edu/carlos
>>>>>Stony Brook, NY 11794-5115 E-mail: carlos.simmerling_at_stonybrook.edu
>>>>>===================================================================