its a shot in the dark, but you could try updating the mac with XQuartz, which seems to be much better for X stuff than the default X installation. doing so is a necessity for running freesurfer locally on the mac:

https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/MacTksurfer

that page fixes a different issue, but its X related.

also, on the linux machine, make sure the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file has

Load "glx"

in the Section "Module"

n.

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 11:52 -0400, Satrajit Ghosh wrote:

thanks nick.

tried with 5.1.0 same issue. here is the output from glxgears.

$ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

i am beginning to suspect it as a driver issue.

cheers,

satra

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nick Schmansky nicks@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: i'm able to replicate what you see on my mac (leopard, w/ XQuartz) connecting via ssh -Y to a linux machine and running fs v5.0.0. however, freeview works in this setup using fs 5.1.0. the change between version is that freeview now uses Qt (instead of Wx). can you switch to v5.1.0? or copy the freeview from 5.1.0 to your 5.0.0 installation? you would need to copy:

    freesurfer/lib/qt
    freesurfer/bin/freeview
    freesurfer/bin/freeview.bin
    freesurver/bin/qt_setup.csh

    n.




    On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 20:40 -0400, Satrajit Ghosh wrote:
    > hi,
    >
    >
    > we are seeing a strange freeview issue at mit and just
    wanted to check
    > if anybody else has seen this. we are running natty narwhal
    (ubuntu
    > 11.04).
    >
    >
    > details here:
    >
    >
    > https://github.com/gablab/mindhive/issues/1
    >
    >
    > cheers,
    >
    > satra
    >
    >


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