Hello,

I have the same surf-sess problem as Kai. First I see the inflated brain and then the view screen turns black and nothing shows up. It is only for fieldsign map. eccentricity and polar maps look good.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Elif

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Kai Hwang <khwang@cnbc.cmu.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to use freesurfer to map the visual cortex and get region
borders of V1, V2.. etc.
We used a conventional rotating/expanding wedge paradigm, and I followed
the steps described in FsFastIndividualRetinotopy Analysis
(https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastIndividualRetinotopyAnalysis)
<https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastIndividualRetinotopyAnalysis>

Everything worked fine till the last step, I can't view the results with
surf-sess. After I execute the command surf-sess, first a flatten cortex
appeared, then the view screen turned black and nothing showed up.



Here is what I have in the terminal window

hwang@kaih:~/Subjects> surf-sess -s Pilot1 -a VM_retinotopy -retinotopy
fieldsign -flat
grep: /home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/session.info: No such file or directory
-----------------------------------------------------------------
surf-sess logfile is /home/hwang/Subjects/log/surf-sess.VM_retinotopy.fs.log
-----------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
Session: Pilot1 ----
------ lh hemisphere ------
/home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/bold/VM_retinotopy
----------------------------------------------------------
/home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/bold/VM_retinotopy
tksurfer -Pilot1 lh inflated -tcl /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/fs-flat.tcl
----------------------------------------------------------
Loading /usr/local/freesurfer/surface_labels.txt
surfer: current subjects dir: /home/hwang/Subjects
surfer: not in "scripts" dir ==> using cwd for session root
surfer: session root data dir ($session) set to:
surfer:     /home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/bold/VM_retinotopy
surfer: Reading header info from /home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/mri/T1.mgz
surfer: vertices=149915, faces=299826
can't find talairach file
'/home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/surf/../mri/orig/COR-.info/../transforms/talairach.xfm'
surfer: ### redraw failed: no gl window open
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...
tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: set flags
setdefpatchview: ### position.tcl for Pilot1 does not exist
setdefpatchview: ### setting flatzrot to 90 (default)
setdefpatchview: ### setting flatscale to 1.0 (default)
setdefpatchview: ### setting flatxtrans to 0.0 (default)
setdefpatchview: ### setting flatytrans to 0.0 (default)
readenv.tcl: ==> read global setenv vars
readenv: set invphaseflag 0
readenv: set fm fieldsign/fieldsignmask-lh
readenv: set angle_offset 0
readenv: set dir /home/hwang/Subjects/Pilot1/bold/VM_retinotopy
readenv: set truncphaseflag 0
readenv: set offset 0.4
readenv: set fmid 0.8
readenv: set fs fieldsign/fieldsign-lh
readenv: set lat
readenv: set fthresh 0.4
readenv: set complexname -imag
readenv: set realname -real
readenv: set eccendir eccen
readenv: set floatstem map
readenv: set hemi lh
readenv: set rgbname map
readenv: set use_vertex_arrays 0
readenv: set nosave 0
readenv: set polardir polar
readenv: set noexit
readenv: set curv lh.curv
readenv: set patchname occip.patch.flat
readenv: set fslope 1.3
readenv: set colscale 0
readenv: set mc () {  . /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh
}
readenv: set smoothsteps 2
readenv: set revpolarflag 0
readenv.tcl: ==> read rgbname-specific setenv vars
%
tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: read curvature
surfer: single buffered window
surfer: using interface /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tksurfer.tcl
tksurfer: run tcl script: /usr/local/freesurfer/lib/tcl/fs-flat.tcl
surfer: curvature read: min=-1.677210 max=1.267429
% tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: read patch
tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: read fieldsign
tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: read fieldsign mask
surfer: read_fieldsign(fieldsign/fieldsign-lh)
surfer: mris->nvertices = 149915, vnum = 149915
surfer: read_fsmask(fieldsign/fieldsignmask-lh)
% tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: scale, position brain
surfer: ### GL window already open: can't open second
% tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: save rgb's
tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: save rgb
surfer: dipscale=0.000000
% tksurfer: fs-flat.tcl: nosave setenv'd => nothing will be saved
invalid command name "dontsave_rgb_named"% surfer: dipscale=0.000000
% surfer: dipscale=0.000000



any suggestion how to make surf-sess work?

Thanks!
Kai
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