On 25.09.2014 01:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Dennis Jacobfeuerborn, le Thu 25 Sep 2014 01:31:21 +0200, a écrit : >> I'm not sure why it would draw to an x11 window? > > Well, that's what we would call a "graphical output" :) > > So I guess you are saying that making a .png or .pdf doesn't work? Does > hwloc-ls --help list them as supported output formats?
Supported output file formats: console, txt, fig, xml, synthetic The question I guess is how does the command determine the availability of png as an output? Both cairo and libpng are installed. > If not, not only cairo is needed, but cairo itself needs to have support for > pdf/ps/png/svg built it. I don't know how it was built on your system, but > perhaps that is what is missing? > > At worse, you can use the .fig format, and use fig2dev to convert them. Or you > can export to .xml and render graphically on your workstation from the .xml > file. The XML route would probably best as a fallback though it would still be interesting to find out why hwloc-ls thinks it cannot do png output. Regards, Dennis
