Hi,
I am experiencing similar problems to Jennifer with tksurfer; the key (tksurfer) error message being surfer: ### redraw failed: no gl window open and the display showing only a thin slice of the posterior of the surface.
The computer is a fresh install of RHEL 5 on a new machine, and I've run "yum update." Our university IT department also auto-updates the machines. Matlab is NOT (yet) installed on the machine. I have just installed the latest FreeSurfer and this is my first time trying to run it on this machine.
Specifics: freesurfer-Linux-centos4_x86_64-stable-pub-v4.0.4 kernel: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-92.el5) subjects$ sudo /sbin/lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300 Pro] (Secondary)
I just yesterday updated the video driver: $ yum -y install fglrx64_7_1_0 initscripts-atidriver and auto-configed the X11 server $ aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=right The tksurfer problem occured with the autoconfiged xorg.conf file, which is at the end of my message. Adding
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection
didn't help (I tried this only for completeness, I do not think "composite" is an option on ATI cards).
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 Screen "aticonfig-Screen[1]" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "Files" EndSection
Section "Module" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[1]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "vesa" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[1]" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]" Device "aticonfig-Device[1]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection