Hi List, I would need urgently to use the 'rasmol' molecular rendering suite on SUSE 9.1; I'm at the middle of writing up my PhD thesis... Actually the .RPM comes with the distro, but is seemingly completely broken and/or not compatible e.g. with my ATI onboard stuff. Everytime I start it up, I can get only this error message:
pelibali@khazad-dum:~> rasmol RasMol Molecular Renderer Roger Sayle, August 1995 Copyright (C) Roger Sayle 1992-1999 Version 2.7.2.1 April 2001 Copyright (C) Herbert J. Bernstein 1998-2001 *** See "help notice" for further notices *** [16-bit version]
No suitable display detected! RasMol>
Does anyone use the above package on SUSE 9.1; and any ideas to get rid of the annoying error-message?! Hmmm. Maybe the '16-bit version' is simply not a good one for a recent comp... I agree, the problem of course can be very specific, being that software is a biologist-application; but mostly what it does is, to display e.g. .PDB files containing the 3D coordinates of every atom in a molecule in a window. Thanks a lot, Pelibali
Pelibali, On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:23, pelibali wrote:
Hi List,
That's Mr. List, to you!
I would need urgently to use the 'rasmol' molecular rendering suite on SUSE 9.1; I'm at the middle of writing up my PhD thesis... Actually the .RPM comes with the distro, but is seemingly completely broken and/or not compatible e.g. with my ATI onboard stuff. Everytime
I start it up, I can get only this error message:
pelibali@khazad-dum:~> rasmol RasMol Molecular Renderer Roger Sayle, August 1995 Copyright (C) Roger Sayle 1992-1999 Version 2.7.2.1 April 2001 Copyright (C) Herbert J. Bernstein 1998-2001 *** See "help notice" for further notices *** [16-bit version]
No suitable display detected! RasMol>
Does anyone use the above package on SUSE 9.1; and any ideas to get rid of the annoying error-message?! Hmmm. Maybe the '16-bit version' is simply not a good one for a recent comp... I agree, the problem of course can be very specific, being that software is a biologist-application; but mostly what it does is, to display e.g. .PDB files containing the 3D coordinates of every atom in a molecule in a window.
You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable. Assuming you're running from an X context (Konsole, xterm, eterm, etc.), then this is probably not the problem. Most likely, you need to put your monitor in a 16-bit display mode. Check out the FAQ on this page: - http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/faq_ras.htm#nodisp - http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/faq_ras.htm
Thanks a lot, Pelibali
Randall Schulz
pelibali wrote:
I would need urgently to use the 'rasmol' molecular rendering suite on SUSE 9.1; I'm at the middle of writing up my PhD thesis... Actually the .RPM comes with the distro, but is seemingly completely broken and/or not compatible e.g. with my ATI onboard stuff. Everytime I start it up, I can get only this error message:
pelibali@khazad-dum:~> rasmol RasMol Molecular Renderer Roger Sayle, August 1995 Copyright (C) Roger Sayle 1992-1999 Version 2.7.2.1 April 2001 Copyright (C) Herbert J. Bernstein 1998-2001 *** See "help notice" for further notices *** [16-bit version]
No suitable display detected! RasMol>
Does anyone use the above package on SUSE 9.1; and any ideas to get rid of the annoying error-message?! Hmmm. Maybe the '16-bit version' is simply not a good one for a recent comp... I agree, the problem of course can be very specific, being that software is a biologist-application; but mostly what it does is, to display e.g. .PDB files containing the 3D coordinates of every atom in a molecule in a window.
I would suggest making sure you have your display set to 16 bit color, and make sure you have 3D enabled. That might get it going. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
Hi, I just installed this package : rasmol-2.7.2.1-633.i586.rpm on a SuSE 9.1 wihout any problem. X run at 24 bit depth on a Nvidia Geforce 2MX. I find it with google. I hope this helps Matthias Le jeudi 3 Février 2005 10:23, pelibali a écrit : -- __________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD INSERM U563 - CPTP Departement de Genetique fonctionnelle des maladies des epitheliums Batiment Lefebvre - 2eme etage CHU Purpan Avenue de Grande Bretagne 31059 Toulouse Cedex 03 FRANCE --------------- Tel: 33 (5) 62 74 45 03 _________________________________
Hi, On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:03:51 +0100 Matthias Titeux <.> wrote:
Hi,
I just installed this package : rasmol-2.7.2.1-633.i586.rpm on a SuSE 9.1 wihout any problem. X run at 24 bit depth on a Nvidia Geforce 2MX.
Originally I had completely the same version from my install-media:( After trying that, I also attempted to run all of the 8/16/32 bit versions originated from the rasmol webpage; and of course attempted to get them work with all of the possible ATI-drivers (radeon,fglrx), resolution and color-depth variations under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Without any success:( So decided to go for other applications to visualize .PDB files; will try latest tomorrow Chimera, Cn3D, MolMol and the Swiss "Deep-View" PDB-Viewer software... Anyway thanks for the idea, Pelibali Ps. I have 3D on my ATI; that shouldn't be the source of my problem...
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