[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] a new user with a simple question

[James Feng]

I think I have found the cause now; it's the NVidia (proprietary) driver I
installed for using CUDA (which I only have on the base OpenSUSE but not on
those vbox OpenSUSE).  I can get the "plot over line" work normally after I
uninstalled the NVidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, etc. so I just use the nouveau
driver came with the OpenSUSE package.  However, this work-around disallows
me to take the advantage of my NVidia GeForce 650 GPU with CUDA, for the
functionality of paraview "plot over line".  I assume there must be a way
to get the NVidia (proprietary)  driver work with paraview, which somebody
better versed in OpenSUSE or Linux in general can advise.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:29 PM, James Feng <jfeng at optomec.com> wrote:

> Now, I had another chance to reproduce this problem (with ParaView
> 3.12.0).  I just put together a new PC and had OpenSUSE 12.3 installed as
> the base OS.  I noticed that I have the same problem with "plot-over-line"
> as that with the Acer machine: the plot-over-line sub-window is blank.  The
> similarity between this new PC and Acer is that they both have OpenSUSE
> 12.3 installed as the base OS and then they both have virtualbox (same
> version 4.3.6) installed on OpenSUSE.  Although not 100% sure, the problem
> seemed to appear after I installed the virtualbox.  But I could not recover
> the plot-over-line functionality by deleting the virtualbox in YaST.  As a
> test, I had OpenSUSE 12.3 installed in a virtualbox on a Win 7 PC, on which
> I installed the same version of ParaView and plot-over-line worked fine
> there.  Thus, it's nothing wrong with OpenSUSE 12.3 (if I don't install
> virtualbox on it).  The question is why, and what specific driver is
> screwed at this point.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:17 PM, James Feng <jfeng at optomec.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an Acer computer with OpenSUSE 12.3 installed as the base OS.
>> When I first installed OpenFOAM (which uses ParaFoam -- a paraview-based
>> postprocessor), everything worked normal and I could have the
>> plot-over-line do what it's supposed to do.  Then I started mess around
>> with the ParaFoam (to get what I'd like to see) and at some point I lost
>> the normal behavior of plot-over-line (which I cannot recall what exactly I
>> did).   However, all other functions of paraview seem to work fine.  So
>> it's hard for me to believe the problem is the bad driver or bad graphic
>> card.
>>
>> I also tried to install Ubuntu on the vbox on this same computer, where I
>> installed a fresh OpenFOAM and the parafoam worked fine with the
>> plot-over-line.  So, I firmly believe there's something I screwed with
>> the paraview settings, which I could not get back by re-compiling it (in
>> the "thirdparty" directory of OpenFOAM) with the *.ini file deleted in the
>> ./config/paraview/ directory.  I wonder if there could be something else
>> stuck on this OS.  I hate to wipe everything out and re-install
>> this OpenSUSE because there are other OSs on the vbox all based on it.
>>
>> If there's anything I can do with the current "screwed" paraview to bring
>> the plot-over-line back, I'm willing to try.
>>
>> Thanks, Alan.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>wrote:
>>
>>>  Just guessing here - I wonder if you have a bad driver and /or
>>> graphics card?  If ParaView works one place, and doesn't the other, your
>>> data is probably good.  Assuming you are using a Kitware download, I assume
>>> that shouldn't be the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What OS?  Can you draw lines?  (in a 3d window, Sources/ Line).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* James Feng [mailto:jfeng at optomec.com]
>>> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2014 3:16 PM
>>> *To:* Scott, W Alan
>>> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] a new user with a simple question
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried rm paraview .ini  file and indeed got a fresh start with
>>> paraFoam (by looking at the "Recent" tab under "Filter").   However, on one
>>> of my computers (unlike the others) the plotOverLine window is still blank
>>> (without anything visible, not even the coordinates).  I tried to put in a
>>> "Chart Title" but it does not appear in the blank window (although colors
>>> were assigned to data sets).  I tried "Save Data" and looked at the csv
>>> file, which shows the data were there.  which might be due to that the data
>>> did not get in there.   Could there be something else I can do to manually
>>> get the data (over line) plotted in that window?   Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This web site tells you how to do it - from the ParaView Wiki.
>>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Settings_Files.  Just delete the
>>> configuration files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can also find out if taking ParaView to initial conditions is what
>>> you want.  Run paraview -dr (disable registry), and that does the same
>>> thing as deleting the configuration files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *James
>>> Feng
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:15 AM
>>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] a new user with a simple question
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello ParaView,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to use ParaFoam (ParaView) with OpenFoam.  During my several
>>> trial-and-error playing-without-knowing, I lost the "plotOverLine" display
>>> (although the plotOverLine sub-window still comes up but without any curves
>>> and axes appearing).  I wanted to get the original "settings" back (because
>>> I had a working plotOverLine in the beginning), but haven't been able to.
>>> I re-installed OpenFoam and re-compiled ParaFoam; neither of those could
>>> get me a fresh start.  The ParaFoam window seems to always remember what I
>>> had last time.   So, I wonder if you can tell me how I can get ParaView to
>>> the initial (default?) state as if I had it installed the first time?
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James Feng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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