[3dem] Issue to run UCSF Chimera on remote computer that CentOS 7.3

[Masahide Kikkawa]

This is also true for XQuartz on Mac. 
UCSF Chimera, 3dmod in IMOD, e2display etc, that uses openGL extensions  work nicely on Linux servers and display on Mac’s XQuartz using VirtualGL.



> On Jul 12, 2017, at 15:43, Yoel Shkolnisky <yoelsh at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> I had similar remote access problems and solved them by installing VirtualGL and running Chimera using vglrun.
> Yoel
> 
> 
> On 7/12/2017 1:18 AM, Zongli Li wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> We have recently updated our linux boxes from CentOS 7.2 to 7.3, these linux machines include several workstations with GPU card. Now we have a problem to run UCSF chimera remotely on any of these computers, but it's perfect fine to run chimera locally. The error message we got is following:
>> 
>> Display misconfiguration. Please increase the color quality (24 bit color or greater). update your display (graphics) driver, and/or upgrade your graphic card. Also see chimera installation instructions.
>> 
>> Does anyone have this issue and how to fix the problem?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Zongli
>> 
>> 
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