[vtkusers] BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) when I try rendering data with vtk

[Dan Lipsa]

Often, OpenGL support in virtual machines is sketchy - I assume you have
mesa (software rendereing) in your virtual box. What OpenGL version do you
have for your windows machine? I would try running VTK directly in Windows.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Andrew Lam <werdna.mal222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and found out that I have
> openGL 3.0. I'm going to update it and then I'll report back. Also I'm not
> too familiar with the term client OS, but my machine is running windows and
> I'm running ubuntu on virtualbox. I ran glxgears and it displayed 3 gears
> spinning.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Andrew Lam <werdna.mal222 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and found out that I have
>> openGL 3.0. I'm going to update it and then I'll report back. Also I'm not
>> too familiar with the term client OS, but my machine is running windows and
>> I'm running ubuntu on virtualbox. I ran glxgears and it displayed 3 gears
>> spinning.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew,
>>> Make sure your virtual machine supports OpenGL. Is Ubuntu your client OS?
>>> If so, try
>>>
>>> glxgears
>>>
>>> This should display the spinning gears.
>>> Also look at the output from
>>>
>>> glxinfo
>>>
>>> This shows you the version of OpenGL supported. Should be greater than
>>> 3.2 for recent verisons of VTK using OpenGL2.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Lam <werdna.mal222 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying to follow this tutorial for my class.
>>>> https://pyscience.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/volume-ren
>>>> dering-with-python-and-vtk/ I followed the instructions and my code
>>>> matches up, but when I try to run it I get the following error.
>>>>
>>>> X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
>>>> operation)
>>>>
>>>> Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
>>>>
>>>> Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>>>>
>>>> Value in failed request: 0x0
>>>>
>>>> Serial number of failed request: 15
>>>>
>>>> Current serial number in output stream: 20
>>>>
>>>> I've looked through other posts that have similar messages and they
>>>> don't seem to be quite the same. Oh I'm also running Ubuntu 16.04 on a
>>>> virtual machine. Please let me know of any suggestions you might have or
>>>> any additional information you'd need to help resolve this issue.
>>>>
>>>> As suggested by Antimony I uploaded my code to github, here
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/alam38/lab6
>>>>
>>>> I believe the relevant section is section involving the mapper. As you
>>>> can see from the commented section I switched from vtk's
>>>> vtkVolumeRayCastMapper to vtk's smartmapper as a suggestion from my teacher
>>>> in the case that the issue stemmed from the mapper placing too much strain
>>>> on my computer. The other similar questions all seem to point towards an
>>>> issue with nvidia's drivers, but I updated my drivers and there's still an
>>>> issue. That still didn't solve it and I'm not sure what else I could try.
>>>> I've also posted to stackoverflow, but I'm not getting much a response
>>>> there. I will update this with any new information I uncover there is
>>>> people do start to chime in.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
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