Hello everybody,
Having worked with quite old versions of freesurfer for a long time we decided recently to install a newer version on two new computers.
Both are running under the 64 bit version of SUSE Linux 10.2, both have a Dual Opteron processor, they have 6 GB (system 1) or 8 GB (system 2) and most hardware and software is quite comparable in my opinion. There is one major difference with the graphic cards, system 1 has an MSI GEForce 6600, whereas system 2 has an GEForce FX 7600GS. I'd expect that both cards are more than sufficient for freesurfer and I doubt that this difference can be the reason for the difference I have observed but may be some of you have experienced a similar problem and can help me out.
What's the problem? All analysis steps of the standard procedure seem to work fine on both systems. However, I see a reproducible strange problem on system 2 when I try to use tksurfer on the standard data set (bert) coming with the package (freesurfer-Linux-rh9-stable- pub-v3.0.5.-full.tar). When I run the command tkregister bert lh inflated on system 1, everything looks like expected. But on system 2 something is wrong, the program tells the number of vertices and faces as usual and the numbers are the same as on system 2 (as they should, I'm using the same data set). Nevertheless, the output looks quite different, I'll try to attach a screenshot. The window shows up as usual and a small part of the inflated brain is shown at the right edge of the window but the rest of the brain is never shown. When I rotate this surface the visible part of the inflated brain is rotated correctly but the rest is always missing. Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance
Claus
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Tempelmann email: Claus.Tempelmann@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de Clinic for Neurology II MR department Tel.: +49-(0)391-6117183 OvG University Magdeburg +49-(0)391-6117177 Leipziger Strasse 44 39120 Magdeburg Fax: +49-(0)391-6117178 Germany
Claus,
It looks like the image is being clipped. I would suggest updating the graphics driver directly from the NVidia website. On a number of occasions, I have encountered oddball problems like this with NVidia cards, that have been fixed with a driver update. It might be worthwhile to update both machines.
Nick
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:51 +0200, Claus Tempelmann wrote:
Hello everybody,
Having worked with quite old versions of freesurfer for a long time we decided recently to install a newer version on two new computers.
Both are running under the 64 bit version of SUSE Linux 10.2, both have a Dual Opteron processor, they have 6 GB (system 1) or 8 GB (system 2) and most hardware and software is quite comparable in my opinion. There is one major difference with the graphic cards, system 1 has an MSI GEForce 6600, whereas system 2 has an GEForce FX 7600GS. I'd expect that both cards are more than sufficient for freesurfer and I doubt that this difference can be the reason for the difference I have observed but may be some of you have experienced a similar problem and can help me out.
What's the problem? All analysis steps of the standard procedure seem to work fine on both systems. However, I see a reproducible strange problem on system 2 when I try to use tksurfer on the standard data set (bert) coming with the package (freesurfer-Linux-rh9-stable- pub-v3.0.5.-full.tar). When I run the command tkregister bert lh inflated on system 1, everything looks like expected. But on system 2 something is wrong, the program tells the number of vertices and faces as usual and the numbers are the same as on system 2 (as they should, I'm using the same data set). Nevertheless, the output looks quite different, I'll try to attach a screenshot. The window shows up as usual and a small part of the inflated brain is shown at the right edge of the window but the rest of the brain is never shown. When I rotate this surface the visible part of the inflated brain is rotated correctly but the rest is always missing. Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance
Claus
Claus Tempelmann email: Claus.Tempelmann@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de Clinic for Neurology II MR department Tel.: +49-(0)391-6117183 OvG University Magdeburg +49-(0)391-6117177 Leipziger Strasse 44 39120 Magdeburg Fax: +49-(0)391-6117178 Germany _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
Dear Nick,
Thanks for the suggestion! I have to admit that I had found it unlikely that the graphics driver could solve the problem but we made the download anyway and it has helped!!
Thanks again
Claus
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Tempelmann email: Claus.Tempelmann@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de Clinic for Neurology II MR department Tel.: +49-(0)391-6117183 OvG University Magdeburg +49-(0)391-6117177 Leipziger Strasse 44 39120 Magdeburg Fax: +49-(0)391-6117178 Germany
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Nick Schmansky wrote:
Claus,
It looks like the image is being clipped. I would suggest updating the graphics driver directly from the NVidia website. On a number of occasions, I have encountered oddball problems like this with NVidia cards, that have been fixed with a driver update. It might be worthwhile to update both machines.
Nick
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:51 +0200, Claus Tempelmann wrote:
Hello everybody,
Having worked with quite old versions of freesurfer for a long time we decided recently to install a newer version on two new computers.
Both are running under the 64 bit version of SUSE Linux 10.2, both have a Dual Opteron processor, they have 6 GB (system 1) or 8 GB (system 2) and most hardware and software is quite comparable in my opinion. There is one major difference with the graphic cards, system 1 has an MSI GEForce 6600, whereas system 2 has an GEForce FX 7600GS. I'd expect that both cards are more than sufficient for freesurfer and I doubt that this difference can be the reason for the difference I have observed but may be some of you have experienced a similar problem and can help me out.
What's the problem? All analysis steps of the standard procedure seem to work fine on both systems. However, I see a reproducible strange problem on system 2 when I try to use tksurfer on the standard data set (bert) coming with the package (freesurfer-Linux-rh9-stable- pub-v3.0.5.-full.tar). When I run the command tkregister bert lh inflated on system 1, everything looks like expected. But on system 2 something is wrong, the program tells the number of vertices and faces as usual and the numbers are the same as on system 2 (as they should, I'm using the same data set). Nevertheless, the output looks quite different, I'll try to attach a screenshot. The window shows up as usual and a small part of the inflated brain is shown at the right edge of the window but the rest of the brain is never shown. When I rotate this surface the visible part of the inflated brain is rotated correctly but the rest is always missing. Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance
Claus
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