[Paraview] stereo wall configuration
Patrick Shinpaugh
shpatric at vt.edu
Wed Jul 9 17:09:56 EDT 2008
Unfortunately that also did not work. I'll go back to 2.6.1 for now and
test out the next release whenever it comes out.
Thanks,
Pat
Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Sorry. I see that the -display parameter option was added after the 3.2 release. You could try the env program to directly set the DISPLAY parameter.
>
> env DISPLAY=:0.1 pvserver ...
>
> -Ken
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Shinpaugh [mailto:shpatric at vt.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:46 AM
>> To: Moreland, Kenneth
>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] stereo wall configuration
>>
>> I believe this is a different message from the one I had seen when I
>> first connected to the pvserver on our stereo wall though very similar
>> but I am fairly certain it closed of its own accord. The attached file
>> is the warning from our 4 wall cave where the client and each server (1
>> per wall) is running on a separate machine. The xhost program is used to
>> allow X server connections between the console/client machine and the
>> display/server machines. Each of the 4 machines where the pvserver is
>> running is running xinit in run level 3 with an xclock without kdm or
>> gdm. From the console machine I am able to run xterm or any other X
>> based program to the displays of the other 4 machines without an issue
>> which will show on the CAVE wall. I can also ssh into any of those
>> machines and set the DISPLAY to :0.0 and run an X app which will show on
>> the CAVE wall. So, the display should be accessible to any local process
>> whether created by mpirun (which is using ssh to get to those machines)
>> or otherwise.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> Patrick Shinpaugh wrote:
>>
>>> I get the following:
>>>
>>> $ pvserver -display :0.1 /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
>>> Got unknown argument: -display
>>>
>>> --cave-configuration=opt
>>> -cc=opt Specify the file that defines the displays for a cave. It is
>>> used only with CaveRenderModule.
>>> ....
>>>
>>>
>>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try "-display :0.1".
>>>>
>>>> -Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/8/08 10:15 AM, "Patrick Shinpaugh" <shpatric at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Only the client is displaying on :0.0 and nothing on :0.1. I didn't
>>>>>
>> see
>>
>>>>> a -display option when I ran pvserver with --help but I tried it
>>>>> anyway.
>>>>> Both -display=:0.1 and --display=:0.1 resulted in the usage
>>>>>
>> information
>>
>>>>> being printed out rather than starting the pvserver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thinking back on it, I did see a dialog box the first time I got the
>>>>> client to connect to the server which said something about a bad X
>>>>> connection. Unfortunately, subsequent attempts to read the message
>>>>>
>> fail
>>
>>>>> because the dialog box appears and disappears almost immediately (no
>>>>> okay button) - nothing is shown in the output window to specify what
>>>>> error may have occurred and nothing shows on the command line where
>>>>>
>> the
>>
>>>>> pvserver or paraview client were run except "Client connected.".
>>>>>
>>>>> If there is a bad X connection, there should not be as I can simply
>>>>>
>> run
>>
>>>>> `DISPLAY=:0.1 xterm` from a terminal in :0.0 and an xterm will
>>>>> appear in
>>>>> :0.1. I do have the Composite extension disabled which is necessary to
>>>>> run active stereo (PV built with this->StereoType =
>>>>> VTK_STEREO_CRYSTAL_EYES;) and the xorg.conf does have Option "Stereo"
>>>>> "3" for screen 1 and is not present for screen 0. Also, I can run
>>>>> active
>>>>> stereo in other applications such as VMD with the visual being
>>>>> displayed
>>>>> on the :0.1 display.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Pat
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is pvserver creating a window on the first screen? It could be that
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> DISPLAY environment is not being set right. That would probably be
>>>>>> a bug in
>>>>>> the pvx file processing, but you should be able to get around it by
>>>>>> passing
>>>>>> a -display flag to the pvserver program.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ken
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/7/08 1:19 PM, "Patrick Shinpaugh" <shpatric at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> I upgraded from ParaView-2.6.1 to ParaView-3.2.2 on our stereo wall
>>>>>>> (CentOS linux built with openmpi). After updating our command line
>>>>>>> script and adding a default_servers.pvsc file I am finally able to
>>>>>>> connect to the pvserver running on localhost. Unfortunately, it is
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> creating a window on the :0.1 screen. Any idea what I might be doing
>>>>>>> wrong? Or is there an easier way to render on the second screen?
>>>>>>> We want
>>>>>>> a client on screen 0 and a full screen window on screen 1 which
>>>>>>> used to
>>>>>>> work in PV-2.6.1. Stereo 3 is enabled in X for the screen 1 not on
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> screen 0. Pertinent files shown below (note - the lines commented
>>>>>>> with #
>>>>>>> showing the filename are not part of the actual files):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *********************************************
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # /usr/local/bin/paraview-wall
>>>>>>> export
>>>>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt-4.2.3/lib:/usr/lib/openmpi/1.2.5-
>>>>>>>
>> gcc/lib:$LD_L
>>
>>>>>>> IB
>>>>>>> RARY_PATH
>>>>>>> mpirun -np 1 pvserver /etc/paraview/wall.pvx &
>>>>>>> sleep 5
>>>>>>> /usr/local/paraview/bin/paraview --server=localhost --stereo
>>>>>>> /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *********************************************
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
>>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>>>>>>> <pvx>
>>>>>>> <Process Type="client" />
>>>>>>> <Process Type="server" >
>>>>>>> <Machine Name="localhost"
>>>>>>> Environment="DISPLAY=:0.1"
>>>>>>> LowerLeft="-1.0 -1.0 -1.0"
>>>>>>> LowerRight="1.0 -1.0 -1.0"
>>>>>>> UpperLeft="-1.0 1.0 -1.0" />
>>>>>>> </Process>
>>>>>>> </pvx>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *********************************************
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # /usr/local/paraview/lib/paraview-3.2/default_servers.pvsc
>>>>>>> <Servers>
>>>>>>> <Server name="localhost" resource="cs://localhost:11111">
>>>>>>> <ManualStartup/>
>>>>>>> </Server>
>>>>>>> </Servers>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Patrick Shinpaugh
>>>>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>>>>> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
>>>>>>> 540-231-2054
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Patrick Shinpaugh
>>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>>> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
>>>>> 540-231-2054
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> --
>> Patrick Shinpaugh
>> Virginia Tech
>> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
>> 540-231-2054
>>
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Patrick Shinpaugh
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UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
540-231-2054
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