[Paraview] paraview requires a decent video card?

[eugenec]

Well when we first tried to build Paraview, we used OpenGL, and got a mpi 
capable build finished succesfully. However, when we tried to run paraview in 
parallel, we would get however X number of GUIs popping up, where X was the 
number of processors we used in the argument 'mpirun -np X'. Each GUI was 
independant of each other (ie. could load different data sets, etc.), but when 
one was closed, they all closed.
Furthermore, pvserver was not mpicapable, which the Paraview Guide said it 
should be, so we turned to try to use Mangled Mesa. When trying to build with 
that, we got the alot of errors, a sample of which is below:

/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0x2140): In function 
`write_rgba_span_rgba':
: undefined reference to `_mesa_memcpy'
/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0x3240): In function 
`read_rgba_span_rgba':
: undefined reference to `_mesa_memcpy'
/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0x72a7): In function 
`write_index8_span':
: undefined reference to `_mesa_memcpy'
/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0xd729): In function 
`osmesa_choose_triangle':
: undefined reference to `_swrast_choose_triangle'
/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0xd837): In function 
`osmesa_choose_line':
: undefined reference to `_swrast_choose_line'
/tmp/Mesa-5.0.2/lib/libMOSMesa.a(osmesa.o)(.text+0xdc02): In function 
`osmesa_update_state':
: undefined reference to `_tnl_InvalidateState'


>===== Original Message From Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at gmail.com> =====
>Whether you can build or not should have nothing to do with the card.
>What kind of errors are you getting?
>
>On 7/20/05, eugenec <eugenec at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We've been trying to install Paraview 2.0.3 on Mandreva 2005 without 
success.
>> Everytime we try to build, using OGL and Mesa, or Mangled Mesa, we cannot
>> successfully complete the build. We've tried installing vtk libraries
>> seperately but that doesnt seem to work. Does Paraview require a decent 
video
>> card? On our computer we have a ATI Rage IIC, which is pretty old. Thanks 
for
>> any help.
>>
>> Eugene
>>
>>
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