It should have been xdpyinfo, not xdpyino (note the 'f').

Sarah Andersen wrote:
Thank you.

When I run 'xdpyino | grep GL' it says "xdpyino: Command not found" (this is
in the tcsh shell)

I am running it on VMware Player version 2.0.2 and using the FSL_vm5_32
virtual machine from the FSL website. If this helps and you can give me
further instructions, I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, thank you
for the help that you have already given.

--sarah

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Raines [mailto:raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Sarah Andersen
Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] problem viewing in tksurfer

Your X server on your virtual Linux image does not appear to have GLX
support.  If you run 'xdpyino | grep GL' do you see GLX listed?

If not, I am not sure what to say as I don't know what virtual machine
program you are using.  But you need to read up in its docs about
how to properly install a X11 video driver for it.


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Sarah Andersen wrote:

  
Dear FreeSurfers,



I am having a problem viewing  in tksurfer: I can only see a sliver of the
brain. This sliver will rotate and do everything that tksurfer is supposed
to do, but I can't view any more of the brain than a tiny piece of the
occipital lobe. I have tried this with several different files, and had
    
the
  
same issue for each of them. Tkmedit, on the other hand, works fine.



I am using FreeSurfer stable release v4.0.1 on Windows Vista using a
virtual machine.

FREESURFER_HOME: /usr/local/freesurfer



Build stamp: freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v4.0.1



RedHat release: CentOS release 5 (Final)



Kernel info: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 i686



I am working through the on-line tutorial and followed the directions to
    
set
  
my environment to /buckner_data/tutorial_subjs I also set SUBJECTS_DIR to
$TUTORIAL_DATA . I am working in $SUBJECTS_DIR. The "which" command gives
    
me
  
/usr/local/freesurfer/bin/tksurfer



I ran the command "tksurfer good_output lh inflated".  The following is
    
the
  
resulting message.



surfer: current subjects dir:

    
/usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/freesurfer_tutorial/buckner_data/tutorial_sub
  
js

surfer: not in "scripts" dir ==> using cwd for session root

surfer: session root data dir ($session) set to:

surfer:

    
/usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/freesurfer_tutorial/buckner_data/tutorial_sub
  
js

surfer: Reading header info from

    
/usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/freesurfer_tutorial/buckner_data/tutorial_sub
  
js/good_output/mri/T1.mgz

surfer: vertices=125352, faces=250700

Loading /usr/local/freesurfer/surface_labels.txt

surfer: ### redraw failed: no gl window open

surfer: single buffered window

surfer: using interface /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tksurfer.tcl

Reading /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkm_common.tcl

Reading /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkm_wrappers.tcl

Reading /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/fsgdfPlot.tcl

Reading /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkUtils.tcl

Successfully parsed tksurfer.tcl

reading white matter vertex locations...



In the email archives I have seen a response that mentioned the NVidia
graphics card. I checked and my machine does have an NVidia graphics card.



Thanks in advance for the help!

Sarah





Sarah Andersen

Research Specialist

Dept. of Neurology

Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

(520) 621-9878

sander@email.arizona.edu




    

  

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