I'm trying to display the inflated surfaces through mne_analyze/tksurfer and all I see is only few pixels of the surfaces. I'm assuming this is a problem with graphics, so I think I have Matrox Graphics (MGA G200ew WPCM450 rev 0a) installed on my host machine and I'm accessing this machine through VNC.
This is common problem when accessing brain surfaces through VNC I think
you have Local windows terminal to acess Linux machine through VNC.
Try typing $MNE_ROOT/bin/mne_opengl_test to check your opengl performance
over VNC.