
Dear Chimera: I successfully installed Chimera on a Linux machine, and it worked as expected for about an hour. Then it began shutting down any time I tried to rotate a volume image (e.g. emd_1015.map). Nothing comparable happens with the version I have running on a PC. Is there something about Linux I need to know? Thanks. -Jay Brown Jay C. Brown Department of Microbiology University of Virginia School of Medicine 1300 Jefferson Park Ave. Charlottesville, VA 22908 Email: Jcb2g@virginia.edu Phone: 434-924-1814 http://people.virginia.edu/~jcb2g/index.htm

On 08/10/2010 02:54 PM, Jay Brown wrote:
Dear Chimera:
I successfully installed Chimera on a Linux machine, and it worked as expected for about an hour. Then it began shutting down any time I tried to rotate a volume image (e.g. emd_1015.map). Nothing comparable happens with the version I have running on a PC. Is there something about Linux I need to know?
Thanks.
-Jay Brown
Frequently, these weird errors are solved by updating the graphics driver. If you have an NVidia or ATI graphics card, you can install the latest driver from the vendor, but you'll need to reinstall every time your kernel is updated -- the closed source drivers are still much better than the open source ones, so it's usually worth the pain. If you have Intel graphics, you'll probably need to wait until your Linux distribution has a major update (you need to update the mesa packages). If you use chimera's Report a Bug dialog to submit this as a bug, it will tell me more about your system so I'll be able to make a specific recommendation. - Greg

Hi, It could also be the hardware, i.e. overheating video card/cpu, bad memory or motherboard. By PC, I'm guessing you mean a different computer running windows? Sabuj On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On 08/10/2010 02:54 PM, Jay Brown wrote:
Dear Chimera:
I successfully installed Chimera on a Linux machine, and it worked as expected for about an hour. Then it began shutting down any time I tried to rotate a volume image (e.g. emd_1015.map). Nothing comparable happens with the version I have running on a PC. Is there something about Linux I need to know?
Thanks.
-Jay Brown
Frequently, these weird errors are solved by updating the graphics driver. If you have an NVidia or ATI graphics card, you can install the latest driver from the vendor, but you'll need to reinstall every time your kernel is updated -- the closed source drivers are still much better than the open source ones, so it's usually worth the pain. If you have Intel graphics, you'll probably need to wait until your Linux distribution has a major update (you need to update the mesa packages).
If you use chimera's Report a Bug dialog to submit this as a bug, it will tell me more about your system so I'll be able to make a specific recommendation.
- Greg
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