[Paraview] Solved: paraview crashes while saving screenshot

[Ondrej Certik]

2008/7/22 sundeep rao <sundeepraop at yahoo.co.in>:
> Hi,
>
> Problem solved by following suggestion given in openfoam message board
> http://openfoam.cfd-online.com/forum/messages/1/4438.html
>
> This link was given in the post -- "Save screenshot and Intel graphics: a
> workaround"  in paraview mailing  list
>
> I followed the procedure given in the post :-
>  to add the following line in  /etc/X11/xorg.conf  file in ServerLayout
> section
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Option "AIGLX" "false"
> EndSection
>
> It worked.
>
> I have tried this in paraview 3.3 in Intel as well as AMD onboard grahics,
> using ubuntu 8.04 and ubuntu 7.10. I think this is a problem with software
> and not hardware specific.

Yes, see also:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492869

Ondrej