[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

[Dennis Conklin]

All,

Can you identify what the minimum requirements are to use v5.0.1?

I think I hear OpenGL minimum is 3.2.  Is that correct?

What is the minimum MESA version required?

Are there other minimum requirements so that I can advise the sysadmins?

Thanks

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, W Alan [mailto:wascott at sandia.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:27 PM
To: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
Cc: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conklin at goodyear.com>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview at paraview.org>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

Sorry for taking so long to test.  YES, THIS WORKS.  Yay!

I tested six ways:
* Linux, with NVidia graphics ---- worked.
    ./paraview 

* Linux, with NVidia graphics, but using Mesa ---- worked.  I looked in the help/about, and yes - it is software rendered.
    ./paraview --mesa-llvm

* Linux, without NVidia graphics ---- didn't work (as expected)
   Ssh -X sharedCompileServer
    ./paraview 

* Linux, without NVidia graphics ---- worked.   Note this solves everyone's -X problem.
   Ssh -X sharedCompileServer
    ./paraview --mesa-llvm

* Log in node of a cluster, without NVidia graphics ---- didn't work (as expected)
   Ssh -X sharedCompileServer
    ./paraview 

* Login node of a cluster, without NVidia graphics ---- worked.  
   Ssh -X sharedCompileServer
    ./paraview --mesa-llvm


Yes, this would be worth updating the official binaries.

Thanks as always,

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 8:55 AM
To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
Cc: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conklin at goodyear.com>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview at paraview.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

Alan,


> ./paraview --mesa-llvm
> .../lib/paraview-5.0/paraview: error while loading shared libraries: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can you try this binary:
http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.0/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit-experimental.tar.gz

If it works, then I can update the official binaries.

Utkarsh