My dear PyFriends,
OKay, I was able to successfully get Pymol up and running on Sony Vaio, thanks
to my new friend Chris Yip! Thanks a million! Hip-Hip Hurray!
The cure you ask? Well, as Chris mentioned in his suggestions, I simply went
to the Sony website and downloaded the update driver for the graphics
controller. The funny thing was that, it wasn't nVidia, it was ATI. So
apparently, this driver issue may not be primarily an nVidia issue. But after
I installed updated driver and restarted, Pymol ran beautifully. Now, I assume
we may still run across some bugs in the future, but for today, we feast on
victory!
Thanks again Chris and I hope this helps someone else in the future!
Cheers,
Nick
Couple of things that people tried - one was to go to an older PyMol version
(and the corollary - go to the latest beta version).
we did try some drivers from the various vendors but that was also hit and
miss...
There didn't seem to be a consistent fix
Chris
On Apr 10, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Noinaj wrote:
Thanks Chris for your help. As you have noted and as I have read online,
there seems to be a problem with the graphics drivers, is this correct? Do you
know if updating the drivers remedied the problem? If not, were you able to
work around the problem? Thanks again for your help!
Cheers,
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Yip
To: Noinaj
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PyMOL] PymOl INstallation PRoblems
A lot of my students ran into the same problem this past fall - there are a
bunch of notes on the list regarding nVidia graphics drivers that seem to be at
the root cause of the problem - you might want to try a search under WinXP and
Pymol...
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/4368.html
here are some of the links that I found were of use, and posted to my class
list
Check here for some info and suggestions:
http://delsci.com/beta/
Specifically..
Take a look here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11962703
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If anyone else is experiencing a non-functional PyMOL with late-model nVidia
drivers on Windows XP or similar, pymol-0_99beta96 contains a workaround
that has been reported to eliminate the problem.
http://delsci.com/beta
Hopefully the next driver release for Windows will fix this problem just
like it did on Linux...
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Some may find this useful too - a Wiki with hints:
http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://pymol.sourceforge.net/faq.html
http://www.rubor.de/bioinf/pymol_tips.html
On Apr 10, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Noinaj wrote:
Hi PyWorld,
I have been trying to help a friend install PyMol on her laptop (Sony
Vaio) that has Windows XP Home Edition. The installation runs smooth with no
problem at all. But once we try to open the program, its seems to stall, then
crashes, and Windows XP asks if we would like to send a error report???
I have searched the archives and online for answers, but with no luck.
Therefore, I present to you, my PyFriends, our dilemma and seek a remedy to our
problem. I give you my word, my good friends, that upon finding the solution,
I will not take all the credit for solving this mystery....just kidding, credit
will be duly noted.
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
Cheers,
Nick
Christopher M. Yip, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor - Canada Research Chair in Molecular Imaging
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
The Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto
Room 404 160 College St.
Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 3E1
(416) 978-7853
(416) 978-4317 (fax)
[email protected]
http://bigten.med.utoronto.ca
Christopher M. Yip, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor - Canada Research Chair in Molecular Imaging
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
The Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto
Room 404 160 College St.
Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 3E1
(416) 978-7853
(416) 978-4317 (fax)
[email protected]
http://bigten.med.utoronto.ca
