What this means is that your OpenGL drivers are probably too old or buggy. You may want to try updating them, if you want to use your GPU for rendering. Otherwise, the --mesa option makes ParaView use software rendering with Mesa libraries packaged in the binaries.
Utkarsh On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Lawson, Joel M. <jmlaw...@caltech.edu> wrote: > It worked! Thank you very much. > > Out of curiousity, what does the --mesa option do? > > > > Regards, > > Joel > > > > From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] On Behalf Of Lawson, > Joel M. > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 6:39 PM > To: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> > Cc: paraview@paraview.org > Subject: Re: [Paraview] Color legend not working properly > > > > I didn't install it using a package manager, instead just downloaded and > extracted the binaries into a local directory. Hence typing 'paraview' in > the usual manner won't run it, so I made an alias that points to the > location of the paraview executable instead. > > Hopefully I can still use the --mesa option at the command line like that, I > will try it when I get in tomorrow. > > Get Outlook for Android > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:34 PM -0700, "Utkarsh Ayachit" > <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> wrote: > > That's very strange. Do you see the same issue if you run with the > > following commandline argument? > > > >> ./paraview --mesa > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Lawson, Joel M. wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> > >> > >> Today I updated Paraview from 4.x.x to 5.3.0, by uninstalling the old > >> version then downloading the Linux 64-bit binary tarball. I’m using Debian > >> 8.7. > >> > >> > >> > >> Everything works fine, except the color legend only shows a single color, >> no > >> matter if I attempt to rescale or otherwise customize it. > >> > >> An example screenshot is shown in this link: http://imgur.com/a/nEeOn > >> > >> > >> > >> The issue persists after restarting Paraview and even the entire computer. > >> Any advice on what might be causing this is welcome! > >> > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Joel > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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