Hi everybody, I have read in the thread about the infamous "segmentation fault"
issue concerning NVidia Linux drivers and PyMOL. Warren says that starting from
release 7664 the problem has been solved, but I still experience the
segmentation fault when working with medium sized proteins using surfaces. I
tried the newest drivers 7667 and 7664 using both PyMOL 0.98 binary and PyMOL
0.99beta binary, and I had negative results. Then I even tried with drivers
7167 and 7174 which also should work with PyMOL 0.99beta, but I didn't manage
to get rid of this segmentation fault. I'm running PyMOL on a RHEL 3.0 WS box
with Kernel 2.4.21-9.EL (which is the one shipped with RHEL 3.0). I have read
on the NVidia README file that this issue is connected with Kernels older
than 2.6.x. But I can't upgrade my kernel, because I'm running other
applications which require the original Kernel to work properly. When I work
with the same protein under the same conditions on my Windows laptop (SiS 730
graphics card) PyMOL runs smoothly.
Has anybody a suggestion how to manage running PyMOL with NVidia Quadro FX
1300/PCI/SSE2 under Linux without experiencing the segmentation fault after a
few minutes?
Thanks for your time
Paolo Tosco
