[Chimera-users] problem with chimera

[Greg Couch]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Vinay Kumar wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have been using chimera and dock6.0 on a RHL9.0 system. More recently if i
> perform simple processes like coloring a molecule in chimera, the display
> goes blank and also logs me out of the session. meaning, i come back to the
> graphical login for my system. I am unable to proceed any further as
> repeated attempts to do simple tasks simply logs me out.
>
> Kindly help with suggestions.
>
> With regards,
> Vinay.

This kind of error is usually due to a buggy graphics driver.  Please file 
a bug using chimera's Help / Report a Bug dialog so the chimera bug 
database will have a record of the buggy graphic driver version, then 
update your graphics driver (do not use yum, use the vendor's graphics 
driver installer), and then follow up the bug with whether or not that 
fixed it (presumably it will).

 	Good luck,

 	Greg Couch
 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab