Hi Dylan, Actually turned out to be me being stupid! The VM emulates an S3 trio video card with no OpenGL hardware. Once I removed the reference to my Nvidia opengl drivers (silly me) and replaced them with the Mesa emulators everything now seems to be fine.
Best wishes Darrel -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Beaudette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:47 PM To: grassuser@grass.itc.it Cc: Darrel Maddy Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] NVIS problem On Friday 19 October 2007, Darrel Maddy wrote: > Dear all, > > Apologies if this has been covered before. > > I have just installed Ubuntu7.04 as a VM using Microsoft virtual > PC2007 (running under Vista x64 Ultimate). I downloaded the CVS and it > compiled without error. Indeed there appeared to be no errors during > installation. Grass62 starts fine and using the Spearfish60 dataset > the elevation rasters show without any problem. The problems start > when I invoke NVIZ (it does not matter whether I do this from the map > window or from the command line) - it says waiting and then it appears > to do nothing! I even let it 'wait' for 30 minutes but nothing appeared. > > It is sometime (nearly a year) since I last tried to use grass - am I > overlooking something simple? Probably something realted to how the VM arbitrates access to the video hardware - esp. with regards to OpenGL... try googling for related things? Dylan > > Thanks > > Darrel > > Prof Darrel Maddy > Chair of Quaternary Science > University of Newcastle, UK > http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/darrel.maddy > > _______________________________________________ > grassuser mailing list > grassuser@grass.itc.it > http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list grassuser@grass.itc.it http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser