[Paraview] problems with running paraview

[Samuel Crow]

Hello Natalie,

GLX is a reference to OpenGL.  On Linux you need the Mesa libraries installed to implement them.  If you don't have a hardware-accelerated graphics driver then that might cause problems also.

--Sam


--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Natalie Happenhofer <nataliehapp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Natalie Happenhofer <nataliehapp at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Paraview] problems with running paraview
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 9:55 AM
> Hi everybody,
> recently I tried to install paraview on linux, I untared
> and unzipped the file an then changed to the bin-directory
> and tried to run paraview:
> First everything seemed ok, the window saying
> "Paraview Kitware.. blabla" turned up and then
> the GUI of Paraview, but a few seconds later it vanishes
> and in my terminal I get error messages:
> 
> ERROR: In
> /home/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> line 370
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x861e2e0): Could not find a decent
> visual
> ERROR: In
> /home/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> line 585
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x861e2e0): Cannot create GLX
> context.  
> Aborting.
> 
> and that's it. What's the problem?
> Thx in advance,
> Natalie Happenhofer
> 
> 
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