Re: [PyMOL] freeglut error

[mark <m....@5-...>]

On 02/11/13 09:30, Troels Emtekær Linnet wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Well, I don't know really what you wan't, but I remember pain with
> graphics and computers. :-)
>
> I see the same error (X Error of failed request....) when I get a
> kernel update to my CentOS comp. That screws up my NVIDIA driver
> installation, pymol fails, and I have to reinstall the driver
> package.

Nope, not needed. I had not updated the system before the pymol package 
was installed - it did come as a package from a standard repository.
>
> The term "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1", is controlling something with
> which method draws the window. By OpenGL or by the mesa driver.
> (Something like that). The OpenGL is super fast, and mesa driver is
> slow.
>
Yeah, it appears to definitely be freeglut. In googling, I found several 
references to a variable or function name change.
<snip>
>
> If this can help, our execution script for pymol is:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
[tlinnet@tomat pymolsvn]$ cat pymolMPEG.sh
> #!/bin/bash if [ ! -f
> $HOME/.local/share/applications/pymolsvn.desktop ]; then ln -s
> /ourlab/software/pymolsvn/pymolsvn.desktop
> $HOME/.local/share/applications/pymolsvn.desktop fi
>
> export FREEMOL=/ourlab/software/pymolsvn/svnfreemol/freemol export
> PYMOL_GIT_MOD=/ourlab/software/pymolsvn/Pymol-script-repo/modules
> export
> PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/ourlab/software/x64/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PIL
>
>
export
> PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/ourlab/software/x64/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/lib-tk
>
>
export
> PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/ourlab/software/x64/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/lib-dynload
>
>
export
> PYTHONPATH=/ourlab/software/pymolsvn/Pymol-script-repo/modules:$PYTHONPATH
>
>
export PYTHONPATH=/ourlab/software/pymolsvn/Pymol-script-repo:$PYTHONPATH
> export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/ourlab/software/x64/lib/pymollib
> *export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=no*
>
> /usr/bin/python /ourlab/software/pymolsvn/modules/pymol/__init__.py
> "$@"

<snip>
I'll look at that tomorrow. One thing I question: why are there 
asterisks around the export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT?

	mark