From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 00:01:03 CDT

Hi,
  I was away from email for a while, sorry for getting back to this slowly:
As Josh postulated below, the WSL driver package doesn't yet contain a
driver image that is completely comparable to a normal Linux driver package.
In this case, the OptiX-related components aren't there yet. I would
expect that this may change down the road, but we're not there yet.

Best regards,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
 

On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:23:15PM +0000, Vermaas, Josh wrote:
> Hi Vaidehi,
>
>
>
> What about if you run nvidia-smi from within WSL? Admittedly I don't have
> much WSL experience, but at least up to 20.04, the driver stack you got
> alongside nvidia-cuda-toolkit was *ancient*, and may not have met the
> minimum specs for LibOptiX. In 22.04, I'd hope this has been improved, but
> maybe not!
>
>
>
> -Josh
>
>
>
> From: <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Vaidehi Doke
> <dokevaidehi_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 9:07 AM
> To: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: vmd-l: Unable to useTachyon-Optix renderer when VMD is installed
> in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
>
>
>
> Dear users,
>
> I am trying to use VMD1.9.4a57 (April 27, 2022) in windows-11 laptop
> having Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed. In WSL I have
> installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and configured the VMD successfully.
>
>
>
> While running VMD, I am getting error about OptiXRenderer as shown below:
>
> I freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04LTS along with the latest NVIDIA driver
> and nvidia-cuda-toolkit. Still I am geeting error about "too old NVIDIA
> driver".
>
>
>
> Furthermore, there is no option for Tachyon-Optix renderer in the
> rendering dropdown menu. (please see attached image below.)
>
>
>
> It will be great help if you guide me to compile and use VMD in WSL such
> that I shall be able to generate high quality images using Tachyon-Optix
> (GPU-accelerated) renderer.
>
>
>
> Details of GPU and GPU-driver in my system are as follows:
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Vaidehi Doke

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