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

kit kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com
Tue Sep 6 05:56:01 EDT 2011


That seems to work for me as well. Nice. Thanks!

Kit


On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:46 +0200, Ivo Roghair wrote:

> Hey, that works just fine, even with the compiz desktop manager
> enabled! Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> 2011/9/6 Stephane PLOIX <stephane.ploix at edf.fr>
> 
>         
>         Hi, 
>         
>         You can also try to disable depth peeling in
>         Edit->Settings->Render View
>         
>         Best, 
>         Stephane 
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com 
>         Envoyé par :
>         paraview-bounces at paraview.org 
>         
>         05/09/2011 19:39
>         
>               Veuillez répondre à
>         kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com
>         
>         
>                       A
>         ivoroghair at gmail.com
>                      cc
>         paraview at paraview.org
>                   Objet
>         Re: [Paraview]
>         Display crash
>         running
>         paraview with
>         low-end
>         graphics card
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         Agreed, immediate mode rendering did not help. I also tried
>         recompiling with VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA  = ON but this did not
>         work either. Do you have to set something inside Paraview to
>         ensure software rendering?
>         
>         For reference my graphics processors is:
>         % lspci | grep VGA
>         00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd
>         Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
>         Controller (rev 09)
>         
>         cheers
>         
>         Kit
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 08:47 +0200, Ivo Roghair wrote: 
>         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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