[Paraview] computer locks up while saving screenshot or animation

[Michael Lampe]

Julian Cummings wrote:

> I have experienced problems with my computer locking up and requiring a
> hard restart while saving multiple screenshots or an animation with
> ParaView.  I have a dual-core Opteron machine running Ubuntu 7.10 with a
> Nvidia GeForce 6800 XTreme graphics card.

Nvidia has acknowledged this to be a driver bug. They offer the 
following workaround, which works fine for me (with Paraview 3.1):

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=104010

-Michael