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Weixi Ma

Internal error in function fgOpenWindow

Hi guys,

I tried to install pymol, a material visualization software on our hub. After the installation, I run it on the workspace and got the following error. “freeglut (pymol): ERROR: Internal error in function fgOpenWindow.”

I looked at these links and found some people had same problems. http://sourceforge.net/p/freeglut/bugs/132/ pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10253.html" rel="external">https://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10253.html

some people said adding export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 to the execution script, I tried, not working. some people said reinstall the graphic card driver. not working either.

anyone got the same problem here?

thx!

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    Nicholas J. Kisseberth

    You will probably need to use an older version of pyMol to work around this issue. The X/VNC server used by current versions of HUBzero are based on a fairly old X11 server which has very limited OpenGL software rendering support. 



    Using



    export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1



    will help some applications but as newer applications get released they expect more OpenGL capabilities than the current system can provide.



     



    In HUBzero 1.3.0 the X/VNC server is being replaced by one based on a more modern platform and has greatly improved OpenGL software rendering support. This will be released by the end of September 2014.

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