Dennis, Don't mean to distract this conversation -- I'll let Chuck follow up on the VNC thing -- but a a small sidetrack:
Can you trying running paraview as: > paraview --mesa-llvm Does that work? Utkarsh On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> wrote: > Chuck, > > > > This is what I get – none of this means anything to me! > > > > Dennis > > > > > > Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "alnx031:15.0". > > OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org > > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect > > OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1) > > OpenGL extensions: > > > > From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chuck.atk...@kitware.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:56 AM > To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> > Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> > Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC > > > > Hi Dennis, > > I suspect the GPU is not getting used by the VNC server and thus falling > back to a software OpenGL implementation with older mesa and not a new > enough OpenGL support. Different VNC servers on Linux have different > capabilities, with some able to reach their underlying GPU and some not. > From your VNC session, can you open up a terminal and run: glxinfo | grep > '^OpenGL' ? That should be more telling. > > > - Chuck > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Dennis Conklin > <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> wrote: > > Chuck, > > > > Sorry, got additional details from the sysops. > > > > We have GPUs in our workstations – he was referring that we don’t have GPU > clusters for computation. I understand that the VNC server is running on > the workstation that I attach to, and yes, we are using the GPU on that > workstation to render. > > > > FYI, the workstations have Nvidia K4000 cards and we are running realVNC – > any chance this is part of your test suite? > > > > Thanks again, sorry for the confusion, but I am NOT a Linux or VNC guru!! > > > > Dennis > > > > From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chuck.atk...@kitware.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:05 PM > To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> > Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC > > > > Sorry, forgot to cc the list. > > Hi Dennis, a few questions: > > Are you using the binaries from paraview.org or did you build it yourself? > Does the machine with the vnc server have a GPU you're trying use? > You said previous versions of paraview worked. Does that include 5.0 and > 4.x or just 4.x? > > On Apr 12, 2016 4:04 PM, "Dennis Conklin" <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> > wrote: > > All, > > > > So I started testing Paraview v5.0.1 Linux and it doesn’t work with RealVNC > v4, or v5.1.1 or v5.3 (dies with Segmentation fault without even displaying > a screen). Earlier versions of Paraview work but not 5.0.1. I am not very > familiar with VNC. Are there graphics or other options in VNC that need to > be tuned that I could refer to my sysops? > > > > Thanks for any hints. > > > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview