Re: [PyMOL] PyMOL compatibility w/ NVidia card on rh9 system

Hi Cameron,

I did run into a similar problem on RH9. Error message I got was 
different but it also came from a glut library. I was able to get around 
the problem by downgrading glut to the version that came with RH8.0 (you 
just force install glut and, if you need to, glut-devel). RedHat knows 
about the problems related to glut libs but I don't think they 
understand yet what's causing them...

Cheers,
-Viktor


Cameron Mura wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if anyone's experienced problems with PyMOL compatibility 
> with an NVidia graphics card? I ran PyMOL on a RedHat 8.0 system without 
> problems, but recently changed to rh9.0(shrike), and I get the following 
> lines of error when I try to run PyMOL from the prompt (and pymol 
> doesn't start):
> 
> """
> CHEMCCA35:cmura[42] pymol
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py", line 
> 93, in ?
>    import pymol
>  File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pymol/modules/pymol/__init__.py", line 
> 236, in ?
>    import _cmd
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libglut.so.3: undefined symbol: 
> glXBindChannelToWindowSGIX
> """
> 
> Some system info.: Red Hat 9.0 (Shrike; 2.4.20-13.9smp kernel) with an 
> NVidia Quadro4 700 XGL graphics card. NVidia driver info. is:
> NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4363  Sat Apr 
> 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
> GCC version:  gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
> 
>  From the last line of the error, I suspect the problem has something to 
> do with incompatibility between my rh9 installation and python 
> interpreter as utilized by PyMOL? But I don't know enough to fix it....
> Has anyone else seen (and fixed?) this problem??
> 

-- 
Viktor Hornak
SUNY at Stony Brook