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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 15:12:12 CDT

Hi,
  Yes, the LINUXAMD64 version is what you want to run if you have a
64-bit installation of Linux on an Opteron.

What do you get if you run VMD with:
vmd -dispdev text

See the Linux release notes page, which includes instructions for following
that step if the problem isn't already obvious at that point.
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/linuxrelnotes.html

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:01:30PM -0300, Leandro Martínez wrote:
> I'm trying to install vmd on my opteron machine. I tried both the LINUXAMD64
> and the LINUX executables, but both gave me the same error. The instalation
> proceeds fine, but when trying to run vmd the console windows opens and
> closes
> very fast (I cannot see what is written in it) and nothing happens.
>
> If I run vmd with vmd -h I get a "Can't open display:" message after
> the normal output, as shown below. I'm not sure if this is the same
> error message that should appear in the console windows.
>
> I can run xterm normally from the same terminal and the DISPLAY
> environment variable is set to :0.0
>
> I'm not even sure that the LINUXAMD64 is the correct executable
> for Opterons, is it?
>
> Any idea of which could be the problem?
> Thanks,
> Leandro Martinez.
>
>
>
>
> %vmd -h
> Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.8.4 (April 17, 2006)
> 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, 1 CPU detected.
> Info) Available command-line options:
> Info) -dispdev <win | cave | text | none> Specify display device
> Info) -dist <d> Distance from origin to screen
> Info) -e <filename> Execute commands in <filename>
> Info) -python Use Python for -e file and subsequent text input
> Info) -eofexit Exit when end-of-file occurs on input
> Info) -h | --help Display this command-line summary
> Info) -pos <X> <Y> Lower-left corner position of display
> Info) -nt No title display at start
> Info) -size <X> <Y> Size of display
> Info) -startup <filename> Specify startup script file
> Info) -m Load subsequent files as separate molecules
> Info) -f Load subsequent files into the same molecule
> Info) <filename> Load file using best-guess file type
> Info) -<type> <filename> Load file using specified file type
> Info) -args Pass subsequent arguments to text interpreter
> Can't open display: 

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