[Paraview] Display crash running paraview with low-end graphics card

[Andy Bauer]

The options I would try are using mesa or go to Edit->Settings->Render View
and check Use Immediate Mode Rendering to on.  Both of these are normally
slower but if it's a memory allocation problem these may get you past that.

Andy

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:02 AM, kit <kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com>wrote:

> **
> Hi All,
>
> When  using the slice of clip tool on a 3D view  if I try to adjust the
> plane my display crashes. I suspect this has something to do with the
> relatively low-end graphics card on my system and there is some toggle or
> switch I'm missing, but can't for the life of me work out what it is. Any
> help would be gratefully appreciated.
>
> For reference I'm running 3.11.1 on Ubuntu-64 bit laptop
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
> Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>
> cheers
>
> Kit
>
> BTW - the following is the call stack from when I killed the application.
>
> #0  0x00007fffcecebf72 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
> #1  0x00007fffce9e2ecc in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #2  0x00007fffce9e347e in _swrast_ReadPixels () from
> /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #3  0x00007fffcecedb2b in intelReadPixels () from /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
> #4  0x00007fffcea16188 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #5  0x00007fffcea1929c in _mesa_meta_CopyTexSubImage2D () from
> /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #6  0x00007fffce9479a0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #7  0x00007fffce94b1ca in _mesa_CopyTexSubImage2D () from
> /usr/lib/dri/libdricore.so
> #8  0x00007fffe9997594 in vtkOpenGLRenderer::RenderPeel (this=0x17b1820,
> layer=2)
>     src/ParaView-3.11.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkOpenGLRenderer.cxx:981
> #9  0x00007fffe9995721 in
> vtkOpenGLRenderer::DeviceRenderTranslucentPolygonalGeometry (
>     this=0x17b1820)
>     src/ParaView-3.11.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkOpenGLRenderer.cxx:652
>
>   --
>
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