James A. Peltier wrote:

mark wrote: | Anyone familiar with pymol? | | We're getting an error I find references to from a few years ago when | we try to run remotely on a headless server. I can run it fine on my | machine (CentOS 6.3, NVidia video), and on another person's workstation | remotely, with other make video, but the server's got a Matrox - which | shouldn't matter, since I'm running this after ssh -Y. pymol yum

installed

| fine, no problems. | | I found, and did a export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1, which allowed | glxgears to work, albeit slowly and unevenly, but pymol always gives me | freeglut (pymol): ERROR: Internal error <FBConfig with necessary | capabilities not found> in function fgOpenWindow | X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) | Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) | Resource id in failed request: 0x0 | Serial number of failed request: 24 | Current serial number in output stream: 27 | PyMOL: abrupt program termination. | | I read that this is two errors, not one, but other than the | environment variable, can't find any other fix.

Try running it through TurboVNC We've used it rather successfully with a boat load of OpenGL software such as Amira.

Oy - vnc on one subnet, from CentOS to CentOS? And the real annoyance is that all involved are 6.3, and I believe all the correct libraries are installed. I also updated glibc and xorg-x11 - there were three packages due.

mark