[Paraview] FW: paraview3.6.1/OSMesa rendering issue

[John Patchett]

Hi Lucy,
   I'm pretty certain that we are doing what you want to do.  We are  
building  OSMesa 7.5 from source as we have had various problems with  
system supplied mesa versions...
--John.


On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Lucy Gagliardi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve recently installed Paraview3.6.1 with OSMesa 7.4.4 on a linux  
> based workstation (64bit). However, when running python scripts to  
> set up and output jpg (or png) files using pvbatch with the --use- 
> offscreen-rendering flag, the scripts run perfectly with no error,  
> however the output picture is garbled. I’ve tried a fresh install of  
> both Paraview and OSMesa to double check my configuration and the  
> compilation runs through fine with no errors. I’m trying to use the  
> OSMesa libraries installed in a shared location across a network  
> instead of on my local machine – could this be the source of the  
> problem? The python scripts only use Paraview as serial (i.e no  
> parallel server) and output the pictures fine if the --use-offscreen- 
> rendering flag is not used (and the OpenGL visualisation window  
> opens).
>
> Any help with this would be great as I’m pretty stumped.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lucy
>
>
> Lucy Gagliardi
> CFD Engineer
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