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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2023 - 21:41:13 CDT

glxinfo also returns the same error:

name of display: localhost:10.0
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
   Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX)
   Minor opcode of failed request: 24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
   Value in failed request: 0x0
   Serial number of failed request: 38
   Current serial number in output stream: 39

Gianluca

On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, Victor Kwan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you check if ssh -Y? works? If not, please attach the output of glxinfo? 
>
> _____________________________________________________________________________________
> From: Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca_at_u.washington.edu>
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> To: Victor Kwan <vkwan8_at_uwo.ca>
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD openGL over ssh from a server with NVIDIA  
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>
> Hi Victor,
>
> With glxgears I observe a similar behavior as with VMD: If I start
> glxgears logged in from an older installation (openSUSE 12.2) then
> glxgears works remotely (I see the wheels). However, if I start glxgears
> logged in from a newer installation (openSUSE 15.2) then I get the error
> message:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
> operation)
>    Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
>    Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>    Value in failed request:  0x0
>    Serial number of failed request:  26
>    Current serial number in output stream:  27
>
> Interestingly, if I log in from the installation with openSUSE 15.2 (AMD
> video card) to a desktop with openSUSE 15.4 (Intel video card) then
> glxgears and VMD can be opened remotely. So the problem seems to occur
> only when I start a openGL window (glxgears or VMD) from a server with
> NVIDIA proprietary drivers to a client which has a recent installation of
> openSUSE (and does not have NVIDIA proprietary drivers).
>
> Gianluca
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Victor Kwan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > It is highly unlikely that your local drivers have anything to do with your
> problem.
> >
> > When X forwarding is used, the frames are rendered on the remote server and then
> > passed through the SSH tunnel via the glx protocol.
> >
> > A quick sanity check will be running  glxgears? under ssh -X -vvv? to see if X11
> > forwarding is enabled on both the server and the client.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Victor
> >
> >____________________________________________________________________________________
> _
> > From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Gianluca
> > Interlandi <gianluca_at_u.washington.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 8:13 PM
> > To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> > Subject: vmd-l: VMD openGL over ssh from a server with NVIDIA
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> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I would like to ask other VMD users about their experience starting a
> > remote session with VMD where the openGL window is forwarded through the
> > X11/X.Org server by using `ssh -X`. My question is specifically when the
> > server where VMD is started from has a NVIDIA video card with the
> > proprietary drivers installed.
> >
> > In my situation, the server runs openSUSE 13.2 with NVIDIA Quadro K620 and
> > driver version 375. In the past, I was able to ssh from a client, which
> > had a Intel or AMD graphics card and start a VMD session remotely. This
> > worked at least up until openSUSE 12.x. But now I have upgraded a laptop
> > with AMD video card to openSUSE 15.2 and a desktop with integrated intel
> > to openSUSE 15.4 and I am no longer able to open a remote VMD session from
> > the server that runs openSUSE 13.2 with NVIDIA and proprietary drivers.
> > The error message that I get is:
> >
> > XRequest.152: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x0
> > ERROR) Could not create OpenGL rendering context-> Exiting...
> >
> > I wonder whether something has changed in the configuration of the X.Org
> > server that is hindering opening a remote openGL session from a server
> > with propretary NVDIA drivers installed. I am considering adding a
> > discrete NVIDIA video card and installing the proprietary drivers to the
> > desktop to see whether this makes opening a remote VMD session possible
> > again. (I tried with an older NVIDIA video card with nouveau but that also
> > generates the error, so it may really need the proprietary NVIDIA drivers,
> > which requires installing a newer video card).
> >
> > But before I try, I wanted to ask whether anybody is able to open a remote
> > VMD window from a server that has NVIDIA with the proprietary drivers to a
> > client that also has a NVIDIA video card with proprietary drivers
> > installed when the client has a recent Linux installation, e.g., probably
> > starting with Linux kernel 5.x. Any experience shared about this would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >       Gianluca
> >
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Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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