Hi,
I have just installed freesurfer on a CentoOS5 virtual machine (VMware), where the host OS is Windows. I am experiencing the "sliver problem" - only a sliver of the brain is being rendered to view. I have gone through the steps described in http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TksurferDisplayProblems, as follows:
1. NVidia driver update: the virtual machine doesn't have a /usr/bin/nvidia-installer, but I updated the driver installed on the host machine. Is this good enough, or should I update it somewhere under the virtual machine too?
2. doublebufferflag - I tried setting it to 1, but that didn't help
3. VirtualGL - since I'm sitting directly at the virtual machine, I didn't install this.
4. Override native graphics libraries: tried it too (copied the relevant file from the Martinos Center and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its directory), no change.
5. VirtualBox - I didn't install this since the virtualization tool I'm using is VMware Workstation, not VirtualBox. Is there a way to run the relevant freesurfer version on a VMware virtual machine? I have done enough installation work on this machine that the option of using VirtualBox instead is strongly unappealing.
Can anyone instruct me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks!! Dahlia.
try updating the windows nvidia driver as well.
n.
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:36 -0500, dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed freesurfer on a CentoOS5 virtual machine (VMware), where the host OS is Windows. I am experiencing the "sliver problem" - only a sliver of the brain is being rendered to view. I have gone through the steps described in http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TksurferDisplayProblems, as follows:
- NVidia driver update: the virtual machine doesn't have a
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer, but I updated the driver installed on the host machine. Is this good enough, or should I update it somewhere under the virtual machine too?
doublebufferflag - I tried setting it to 1, but that didn't help
VirtualGL - since I'm sitting directly at the virtual machine, I didn't
install this.
- Override native graphics libraries: tried it too (copied the relevant
file from the Martinos Center and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its directory), no change.
- VirtualBox - I didn't install this since the virtualization tool I'm
using is VMware Workstation, not VirtualBox. Is there a way to run the relevant freesurfer version on a VMware virtual machine? I have done enough installation work on this machine that the option of using VirtualBox instead is strongly unappealing.
Can anyone instruct me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks!! Dahlia.
Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
Thanks Nick, but that's precisely what I have already done (i.e. the nvidia driver is updated on windows; does not exist on linux), to no avail. Any ideas what to do?
try updating the windows nvidia driver as well.
n.
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:36 -0500, dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed freesurfer on a CentoOS5 virtual machine (VMware), where the host OS is Windows. I am experiencing the "sliver problem" - only a sliver of the brain is being rendered to view. I have gone through the steps described in http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TksurferDisplayProblems, as follows:
- NVidia driver update: the virtual machine doesn't have a
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer, but I updated the driver installed on the host machine. Is this good enough, or should I update it somewhere under the virtual machine too?
doublebufferflag - I tried setting it to 1, but that didn't help
VirtualGL - since I'm sitting directly at the virtual machine, I
didn't install this.
- Override native graphics libraries: tried it too (copied the relevant
file from the Martinos Center and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its directory), no change.
- VirtualBox - I didn't install this since the virtualization tool I'm
using is VMware Workstation, not VirtualBox. Is there a way to run the relevant freesurfer version on a VMware virtual machine? I have done enough installation work on this machine that the option of using VirtualBox instead is strongly unappealing.
Can anyone instruct me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks!! Dahlia.
Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
the only thing i can suggest is to try our Ubuntu VirtualBox for Windows, which I know that tksurfer/tkmedit/qdec will work within (at least on the laptops and desktops i've seen it installed upon, it might none-the-less fail on other systems if there is an underlying graphics driver issue). its at the download link:
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download
n.
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:45 -0500, dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Thanks Nick, but that's precisely what I have already done (i.e. the nvidia driver is updated on windows; does not exist on linux), to no avail. Any ideas what to do?
try updating the windows nvidia driver as well.
n.
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:36 -0500, dahlia@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed freesurfer on a CentoOS5 virtual machine (VMware), where the host OS is Windows. I am experiencing the "sliver problem" - only a sliver of the brain is being rendered to view. I have gone through the steps described in http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TksurferDisplayProblems, as follows:
- NVidia driver update: the virtual machine doesn't have a
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer, but I updated the driver installed on the host machine. Is this good enough, or should I update it somewhere under the virtual machine too?
doublebufferflag - I tried setting it to 1, but that didn't help
VirtualGL - since I'm sitting directly at the virtual machine, I
didn't install this.
- Override native graphics libraries: tried it too (copied the relevant
file from the Martinos Center and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its directory), no change.
- VirtualBox - I didn't install this since the virtualization tool I'm
using is VMware Workstation, not VirtualBox. Is there a way to run the relevant freesurfer version on a VMware virtual machine? I have done enough installation work on this machine that the option of using VirtualBox instead is strongly unappealing.
Can anyone instruct me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks!! Dahlia.
Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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Nick Schmansky