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From: Justin (dlyzxl_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 18:36:36 CDT

Hi John:
 
How to check if my environment variable is incorrect?
 
thanks,
 
Justin

John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

Justin,
Yes, I think that either you need to upgrade/patch your OpenGL, or you've
got an incorrect environment variable, but since you didn't provide the
DISPLAY setting you're using, I can't be sure about the latter.

John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:52:52AM -0700, Justin wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> I can run VMD with "vmd -dispdev text" normally, however same error of OpenGL with " vmd alanine.pdb". Does it verify that the new Sun OpenGL is needed?
>
> thanks,
>
> Justin
>
>
> John Stone wrote:
>
> Justin,
> What is your DISPLAY environment variable set to when running VMD?
> If you run VMD with "vmd -dispdev text" does it startup correctly otherwise?
> Make sure you have the most recent Sun OpenGL installed on your machine:
> http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/opengl/
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:57:55AM -0700, Justin wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I have installed vmd-1.8.2.bin.SOLARIS2.opengl.tar.gz successfully in Sun Sparc Solaris 8.0 system, and encountered the following error.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > [rathlefs_at_ishmael ~/local/VMD/vmd-1.8.2/src]$ vmd
> > Info) VMD for SOLARIS2, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
> > 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, 8 CPUs detected.
> > ERROR) Exiting due to X-Windows OpenGL window creation failure.
> > Info) VMD for SOLARIS2, version 1.8.2 (December 4, 2003)
> > Info) Unable to create OpenGL window.
> >
> >
> > John Stone wrote:
> > Justin,
> > Looks like your machine has out-of-date libraries. The easiest solution
> > to this is to upgrade to Solaris 9, but I believe you can also solve this
> > by upgrading your libm via patches from sunsolve.sun.com. If that doesn't
> > sound appetizing, then you can also build from source which isn't too bad.
> > Let me know what you want to try to do there.
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:54:14AM -0700, Justin wrote:
> > > Hi John:
> > >
> > > I followed the instruction and installed successfully,
> > > but met difficulty when running vmd. The error is
> > > copied as below.
> > >
> > > [rathlefs_at_ishmael ~/local/vmd/bin]$ vmd
> > > ld.so.1: /home/rathlefs/local/vmd/vmd_SOLARIS2: fatal:
> > > libm.so.1: version `SUNW_1.1.1' not found (required by
> > > file /home/rathlefs/local/vmd/vmd_SOLARIS2)
> > > ld.so.1: /home/rathlefs/local/vmd/vmd_SOLARIS2: fatal:
> > > libm.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
> > > Killed
> > >
> > > Could you have any suggestion?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > John Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > Justin,
> > > Yes, you got the right version, but you need to follow the installation
> > > steps described in the README file that came with the package before you
> > > can run it. Let us know if you need more help.
> > >
> > > John Stone
> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:29:48PM -0700, Justin wrote:
> > > > Hi All:
> > > >
> > > > Do we have any VMD binary version for Sun Sparc Solaris system?
> > > >
> > > > I have installed vmd-1.8.3.bin.SOLARIS2.opengl.tar.gz. After extraction, and I cd vmd-1.8.3/bin, then type ./vmd. I got the error 'defaultvmddir: Undefined variable'
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me if I installed a correct version? If yes, how is the problem related?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Justin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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