[Paraview] problems with running paraview

[Kent Eschenberg]

Hmmm ... I don't agree.

First, Mesa is not needed for GLX. Most distributions of OpenGL, from graphics card vendors like Nvidia, include GLX.

Second, the error message doesn't say that GLX is missing. Instead it says that a suitable visual cannot be found. That sounds like the X window system is not configured property. Look at the output from "xdpyinfo". The list of extensions should include one or two with "GLX" in the name. The list of visuals should include at least one with a depth of 24 planes and a class of TrueColor or DirectColor.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center


Samuel Crow wrote:
> 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