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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