[3dem] Display problem of coot, chimera, e2display.py through the network with NVIDIA driver

Daniel Asarnow asarnow at msg.ucsf.edu
Thu Nov 22 13:09:13 PST 2018


You need to use *x2go* (or more specifically VirtualGL) if you want a
general, hardware-accelerated remote 3D display. VGL renders images on the
remote system and transmits those rather than transmitting X11 frames,
which is usually much more performant.

Best,
-da

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 1:27 AM naitow <naitow at spring8.or.jp> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are struggling with display problems of coot, UCSF chimera,
> e2display.py through the network with the NVIDIA driver.
>
> I install these display programs onto a CentOS7 GPU server.
> I also set up another CentOS6 machine with a Quadro card for 3D stereo
> viewing.
> When I ssh in the CentOS7 sever from the CentOS6 machine and run coot,
> chimera and e2display.py, all the programs stop and fail to display
> graphics due to libGL errors like below,
>
> libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
>
> If a GPU server is CentOS6 or use the nouveau driver instead of NVIDIA in
> the client machine, no display problem occurs.
> I think CentOS6 with a Quadro card and the NVIDIA driver is necessary for
> 3D stereo, and CnetOS7 is preferable for many programs like relion-3,
> eman2, phenix, and so on.
>
> I would really appreciate your advice on this issue.
> Thank you so much in advance.
>
> Hisashi
>
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