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