Hi,
Around the 25th of April there was a brief discussion regarding running FreeSurfer on a FC5 machine. Some users were having a problem with tksurfer not displaying and an error with the X server (GLXBadLargeRequest).
I just installed the centos _x64 3.0.3 verson of FreeSurfer on a FC5 machine, nvidia graphics card, and experienced the same error. However, Nick mentioned that a FC5 build of FreeSurfer is available at ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist named freesurfer-Linux-fc5-x86_64-dev20060426.tar.gz
I installed this build on my machine, and this version of tksurfer displays properly (at least a first test, fsaverage + curvature + aparc.anot + wireframe)
Nick went on to say "This is a 'dev' version, meaning its built from a codebase that is slightly ahead of date with the stable version, but none-the-less should behave identically to stable.
This FC5 build won't be updated on a regular basis, since it is not one of our standard platforms (it was built offsite)."
Just for kicks, I linked the FC5 tksurfer into my freesurfer_centos bin, and that also seems to work. Thus I can use the centos_3.0.3 version of everything except tksurfer, for which I use the FC5 version [root@localhost local]# cd freesurfer_centos_3.0.3/bin/ [root@localhost bin]# mv tksurfer tksurferorig [root@localhost bin]# ln -s ../../freesurfer_fc5_3/bin/tksurfer .