Hi all,
FYI, this same problem has been bugging me for several months. Most ATI chipsets have a nice driver installer bundle that, once installed, will let you run tksurfer without a problem. However, this particular chipset, the ES1000, which is the chipset on Dell PowerEdge servers, is unsupported and seems to have been abandoned by ATI/AMD/whoever they are this week.
If you happen to be unlucky enough to have Dell PowerEdge servers with this chipset and the need to run tksurfer, you're out of luck, until you put a slightly "better" graphics card in. I just managed to install an nVidia 8400GS (the x1 PCI-e version - the poweredge PCI-e bus is x8, which means it won't work with any of the most recent cards, but will work with slightly older x1 cards) and tksurfer works fine now. I can provide the gory details if you're in this boat.
mjp
On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Hoptman, Matthew wrote:
Hi all, I’m having trouble using freesurfer’s tksurfer program (I only get a sliver of the brain). Here is the error info I get:
[ghidra: subjects]$ tksurfer 77059 lh pial surfer: current subjects dir: /home/freesurfer/subjects surfer: not in "scripts" dir ==> using cwd for session root surfer: session root data dir ($session) set to: surfer: /home/freesurfer/subjects surfer: Reading header info from /home/freesurfer/subjects/77059/mri/ T1.mgz surfer: vertices=184362, faces=368720 Loading /home/freesurfer/surface_labels.txt surfer: ### redraw failed: no gl window open surfer: single buffered window surfer: tkoInitWindow(77059) surfer: using interface /home/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tksurfer.tcl Reading /home/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkm_common.tcl Reading /home/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkm_wrappers.tcl Reading /home/freesurfer/lib/tcl/fsgdfPlot.tcl Reading /home/freesurfer/lib/tcl/tkUtils.tcl Successfully parsed tksurfer.tcl reading white matter vertex locations...
The driver info (from /etc/X11/xorg.conf) is: Section "Device" BoardName "ES1000 515E" BusID "14:13:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "GARTSize" "32" Option "usevnc" "yes"
Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection
I’m have an onboard ATI ES1000 515E graphics chip.
Any ideas?? Matthew J. Hoptman, PhD Research Scientist V Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research Research Associate Professor in Psychiatry NYU School of Medicine
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