Re: [Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-10-03 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
just completing this thread. our sysadmin found a solution that works well for us: you can see glxgears working in NX if you type: export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes in the terminal before running glxgears. it's not fast, but it works. i think the same holds true for VNC. -matt cheers, satra On

Re: [Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-09-28 Thread Nick Schmansky
its a shot in the dark, but you could try updating the mac with XQuartz, which seems to be much better for X stuff than the default X installation. doing so is a necessity for running freesurfer locally on the mac: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MacTksurfer that page fixes a different

Re: [Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-09-28 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
thanks nick. tried with 5.1.0 same issue. here is the output from glxgears. $ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual i am beginning to suspect it as a driver issue. cheers, satra On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nick Schmansky wrote: > i'm able to replicate what you se

Re: [Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-09-28 Thread Nick Schmansky
i'm able to replicate what you see on my mac (leopard, w/ XQuartz) connecting via ssh -Y to a linux machine and running fs v5.0.0. however, freeview works in this setup using fs 5.1.0. the change between version is that freeview now uses Qt (instead of Wx). can you switch to v5.1.0? or copy the

Re: [Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-09-27 Thread Ruopeng Wang
If you run 'glxgears' command, does it get similar error? Ruopeng On 9/27/11 8:40 PM, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: hi, we are seeing a strange freeview issue at mit and just wanted to check if anybody else has seen this. we are running natty narwhal (ubuntu 11.04). details here: https://github.c

[Freesurfer] strange freeview issue

2011-09-27 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
hi, we are seeing a strange freeview issue at mit and just wanted to check if anybody else has seen this. we are running natty narwhal (ubuntu 11.04). details here: https://github.com/gablab/mindhive/issues/1 cheers, satra ___ Freesurfer mailing list