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

[Ivo Roghair]

I also got the problem, running Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit with proposed kernel
(2.6.38-9.43, currently) and ParaView 3.10.1. I have an Intel Mobile
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller, what I would consider a low-end
graphics card.

Creating a slice from a rectangular mesh works, but displacing it with the
mouse makes the screen lock up, and eventually go black. It seems to keep
responding on key presses. In kern.log I found traces of compiz segfaulting
on the video driver, among a bunch of other errors regarding dri:

Sep  4 23:42:46 ivo-laptop kernel: [10387.689478] compiz[6970]: segfault at
0 ip 00007f2d7a480afe sp 00007fff8aa48b00 error 4 in
i965_dri.so[7f2d7a412000+ac000]

Stopping compiz makes it possible to move the slice by mouse without locking
things up. Something strange happens, still, as the background turns black
at the moment it would turn semi-transparent on my nvidia machine.

Using immediate mode rendering doesn't help, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Ivo
2011/9/2 Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>

> 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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