[Chimera-users] Daily release Chimera installation

[Greg Couch]

Hi Yao (and chimera-users),

The error message should have read:

 	Display misconfiguration.  Please increase the color quality
 	(24 bit color or greater), update your display (graphics)
 	driver, and/or upgrade your graphics card.  Also see chimera
 	installation instructions.

The other common error on Linux is that your OpenGL configuration got
messed up when you updated your system.  For example, if you previously
had a NVidia or ATI graphics driver installed, then updated your system
from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, then the updated system might be in an
inconsistent state until you reinstalled the NVidia or ATI driver.

If /usr/bin/glxgears works (in the glx-utils package) and chimera
doesn't, then please let me know and we'll dig into this deeper.

 	Greg

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Yao Cong wrote:

> Dear Chimera developer,
>
> I am trying to install the daily released Chimera (July 15, 2009) in a
> 64bit Linux, and it shows the following error message. I also list my
> Linux system below. Could you give me some suggestion on what I should
> do to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yao
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> [ycong at panda bin]$ chimera
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/app/chimera/share/__main__.py", line 65, in <module>
>    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>  File "/app/chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 374, in init
>    tkgui.initializeGUI(exitonquit, debug_opengl)
>  File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/tkgui.py", line 2666, in initializeGUI
>  File "/app/chimera/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line
> 322, in checkConfig
>
>  File "/app/chimera/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Togl.py", line 27, in
> __init__
>    Tkinter.Widget.__init__(self, master, "togl", cnf, kw)
>  File "/app/chimera/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1930, in
> __init__
>    (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
> _tkinter.TclError: couldn't choose pixel format
> Couldn't configure togl widget
>
> My Linux system is:
> Linux name.bcm.edu 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21
> 01:33:24 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
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