VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2018 - 09:59:51 CST

Hi,
  Axel is correct, it looks to me like you have compiled VMD from source
but that you did not enable the GUI-related option flag (FLTK), so you
have produced a VMD binary that won't be useful except in a batch mode
without interactive display (e.g. vmd -dispdev openglpbuffer).
As Axel already stated, normal VMD builds are done with many more options.

Even the most minimal interactive VMD build should have at least these options
enabled if you want to use the GUI:
  LINUXAMD64 OPENGL OPENGLPBUFFER FLTK TK ACTC COLVARS TCL PTHREADS

>From that list you could live without ACTC and perhaps COLVARS, and PTHREADS,
but you're starting to cut into the bone at that point and you're actually
removing significant program features and optimizations.

Best,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:50:16AM -0500, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > OK. I am now setting up vmd on a rocks 6.2 and I know the details of
> > the server because I am on of the admins!
> > Although the server itself has no dedicated graphic card, but I see
> > that opengl is fine.
> >
> > mahmood_at_cluster:src$ glxinfo | grep render
> > direct rendering: Yes
> > GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
> > GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
> > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.6, 128 bits)
> > GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_NV_conditional_render,
> > GL_ARB_clip_control, GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted,
> >
> >
> >
> > Considering that vmd is able to run with opengl properly, I used the
> > following commands to install vmd.
> >
> >
> > cd plugins/
> > vim Make-arch ## in order to remove the TCL and NETCDF lib files
> > make LINUXAMD64
> > mkdir -p ../vmd-1.9.3/plugins
> > export PLUGINDIR=/home/mahmood/namd/vmd-1.9.3/plugins/
> > make distrib
> > cd ../vmd-1.9.3/
> >
>
>
>
> > vim configure ## to set install_bin_dir and install_library_dir
> > ./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL
> >
>
> ???is this *really* what you want?
>
> the regular precompiled VMD packages have many, many more options, this is
> for version 1.9.4a8:
>
> vmd > vmdinfo options
> LINUXAMD64 OPENGL OPENGLPBUFFER FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL XINERAMA
> XINPUT LIBOPTIX LIBOSPRAY LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF COLVARS TCL PYTHON
> PTHREADS NUMPY SILENT ICC
> ???
> ???without the options FLTK and TK (and TK depends on TCL), you cannot have
> any GUI elements.???
>
>
> axel.
>
>
>
>
> > cd src
> > make
> > make install
> > export PATH=$PATH:/home/mahmood/namd/vmd-1.9.3/install/bin
> > vmd
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The full output log is available at https://pastebin.com/LnfPDLLK
> > Also, the screen shot is available at https://pasteboard.co/HavtB7o.jpg
> >
> > Is that really related to the graphic problems? Otherwise I have to
> > use the local system with a nvidia card.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mahmood
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy. 

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