Revision as of 21:48, 13 April 2010

Description

A basic rendering check using the PyMol molecular viewer. You must be using a card supported by the Radeon video driver.

Ensure the 'nomodeset' kernel parameter is not enabled in your bootloader configuration (unless you need it for basic X operation to suceed)

Ensure that

glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer'

does not return

OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

Install the pymol package: yum -y install pymol
Launch pymol from a terminal
Go to Wizard => Demo => Representations. There should be a list of demoes on the right side of the Pymol viewer window.
Click on each demo in turn. For each demo:
1. Use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease complexity
2. left-click+mouse to rotate
3. middle-click+mouse to move around
4. and right-click+mouse to zoom in/out
Quit pymol.

all the demoes should run without crashing
there should not be any obvious misrenderings (flickering, surfaces that come and go...)

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 # Ensure the 'nomodeset' kernel parameter is not enabled in your bootloader configuration (unless you need it for basic X operation to suceed)
-# Ensure that <pre>glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer'</pre>
+# Ensure that <pre>glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer'</pre>does not return<pre>OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer</pre>
-does not return 'OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer'
 # Install the pymol package: `yum -y install pymol`
 # Launch pymol from a terminal