<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Interesting. Note that in the 1.7 builds libotf is no longer preloaded, so step #2 will not be needed for those.<div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Dieter Blaas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Those who encountered lots of problems with the graphics when running chimera remotely<br><br>for example you receive error messages like this one:<br><br>X Error of failed request: GLXBadContextTag<br> Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX)<br> Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)<br> Serial number of failed request: 1352<br> Current serial number in output stream: 1352<br><br>might be interested in the following solution:<br><br>1) install VirtualGL (<a href="http://www.virtualgl.org/">http://www.virtualgl.org/</a>) on both PCs<br>2) outcomment the indicated lines in the 'chimera' startup script<br>3) connect to the server by using 'vglconnect'<br>4) start chimera on the server with 'vglrun chimera'<br><br>that's it!<br><br>if [ -z "$nogui" ]<br>then<br> case "`uname -s`" in<br> Linux)<br> # preload our C++ runtime to avoid<br> # ATI graphics driver bug<br> # LD_PRELOAD=libotf.so <<<<<<<<<<br> # export LD_PRELOAD <<<<<<<<<<br> if test -e "$CHIMERA/bin/python2.7"<br> then<br> python="$CHIMERA/bin/python2.7"<br> else<br><br>in those cases where chimera works without this trick you might still see a substancial improvement in transmission speed!<br><br>Best, Dieter<br><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dieter Blaas,<br>Max F. Perutz Laboratories<br>Medical University of Vienna,<br>Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC),<br>Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3,<br>A-1030 Vienna, Austria,<br>Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630,<br>Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616,<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:dieter.blaas@meduniwien.ac.at">dieter.blaas@meduniwien.ac.at</a><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br></body></html>