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

[David Cole]

Does Mac OSX Server have a special sort of WindowServer app? Can 
multiple users be logged on to the WindowServer...? Is the "builder" 
user running the dashboard actually logged on to a WindowServer session 
that utilizes the video card...?

The test images are all solid black - I'm sure that's a clue, but I 
can't tell you where to look next... :-)

Good luck. Post back if you figure this out - I'm sure somebody else 
will run into this eventually.


Dave


Sean McBride wrote:

>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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