Glxinfo Problem

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Dear CentOS Users We are running CentOS on our HPC. Indeed, we have a problem with running some software using X11 server such as pymol. For your information, we are using cygwin to access to the hpc (using SSH -X -Y username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
When we are testing glxinfo on my desktop, it gives us the following error:

[username@hpc ~]# glxinfo name of display: localhost:10.0
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 149 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 20
Current serial number in output stream: 23

The weird thing is that when we use another desktop computer running the same cygwin version and accessing with the same username, glxinfo works fine. Indeed, echo $DISPLAY on my desktop computer gives us localhost:10.0 , while it gives localhost:13.0 on the another desktop. If I set DISPLAY on my desktop to localhost:13.0, it doesn’t work One more point, if we run glxinfo on the another desktop using my account and logging at the same time from my desktop with the same username and setting DISPLAY to 13:0, glxinfo works on my desktop. Any kind of help will be highly appreciated. Sincerely;
M. Ibrahim

One thought on - Glxinfo Problem

  • You’re running an X server on the desktop computer, and then using cygwin’s SSH client to forward X11 when you connect to the remote host. This is how $DISPLAY is being defined. Also, your X11 server will need to support GLX for the remote X11 applications to be able to support it.

    I suggest looking at your desktop computers and figure out why one of them doesn’t support GLX. Try to take the SSH connection out of the loop, since that’s most likely unrelated.