[ccp4bb] Coot: Failed to load module

2018-08-16 Thread nic steussy
All, I am having difficulty running Coot through my ccp4 install since I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 (MATE variant).  The error:  steussy@osprey:~$ coot Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail"

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

2014-03-11 Thread Nic Steussy
Matic, I am struggling with Ubuntu on this issue. The Nvidia driver needs the 'Composite' function disabled in order to function in 3D.  This required the use of the Unity-2D package to disable the 3D used in the Ubuntu desktop effects.  This worked

[ccp4bb] Help with older equipment.

2014-01-10 Thread Nic Steussy
All, Here at Purdue we maintain a home x-ray/cryo source for screening and some preliminary data collection. The facility is maintained by Tim Schmidt, who many of you may know. Tim is having a hard time finding spare parts for a broken temperature probe

Re: [ccp4bb] stereo

2012-03-06 Thread Nic Steussy
I have a Quadro 3800 paired with an Acer GD235Hz with the computer running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and the standard NVIDIA linux driver. Hardware stereo works pretty well in Coot, though it has a habit of inverting occasionally. Pymol works well. Have not tried O.

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 indexing problem

2012-03-06 Thread Nic Steussy
Our most common problem is an incorrect beam center.  The crystal we collect most frequently has large cell dimensions, so if the beam center is off even a bit it will bollix up the indexing.  What we usually do at the synchrotron is look for a refined beam

Re: [ccp4bb] Beginning crystallography text

2010-07-09 Thread Nic Steussy
Stout and Jensen, "X-ray structure determination", 1989 Solid mid-level theory with practical examples. Most of the hardware discussed is very dates, but otherwise an excellent intermediate text. Nic out Bernhard Rupp wrote: The question of what textbook to use is very much context

Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-16 Thread Nic Steussy
George M. Sheldrick wrote: We chose the extra network card because of doubts, possibly unfounded, about running the on-board card under Linux. The choice of graphics card was determined by the fact that each computer has two TFTs, one is a standard Dell TFT and the other a Zalman stereo TFT. We