[vtkusers] dashboard failures on Mac OS X, invalid pixel format

[Sean McBride]

Hi all,

I have been working on my nightly dashboard lately, and the other night
ran it on two different machines:
1) G5 with Mac OS X 10.4.3, ATI Radeon 9600 XT
2) G5 with Mac OS X Server 10.4.3, nVidia GeForce FX 5200

On machine 1 almost all tests pass.  But on machine 2 many many tests fail:
<http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/RogueResearch/MacOSX10.4.3-carbon-
gcc4.0.1/20051219-0517-Experimental/Test.html>

For the carbon case, the error is always:

ERROR: In /Users/builder/kitware/VTK/Rendering/
vtkCarbonRenderWindow.cxx, line 888
vtkCarbonRenderWindow (0x2805800): Could not find valid pixel format

In the cocoa case, its:

2005-12-19 04:43:06.857 vtkpython[14506] invalid pixel format
2005-12-19 04:43:06.858 vtkpython[14506] invalid context

All tests fail with the same message, and these failures have been
happening for days.  The biggest difference between the machines is the
video card, and the OS.

Anyone have any ideas on the cause and solution?

Thanks!

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada