Thanks for you reply, Ken. In stead of black square, the result is even more strange if I run without the --use-offscreen-rendering flag. It is basically a huge collection of random dots, and if I move the camera, the glxgears even appears in the display.
Aaron On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like it could be a rendering problem. Perhaps the offscreen > rendering is misbehaving. What happens when you run without the > --use-offscreen-rendering flag? > > -Ken > > > On 9/22/08 11:28 AM, "Biao She" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi folks. >> Has anyone ever installed paraview on SGI Altix 4000? If I compiled >> paraview with "PARAVIEW_USE_MPI" option setting to ON, the paraview >> didn't work properly. For example, I first started the MPI version >> pvserver on the supercomputer by issuing "DISPLAY=:0 mpirun -np 4 >> ./pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering", then I launched paraview >> locally and connected it to the pvserver on the supercomputer. >> Normally, at the center of paraview display area, there should have >> three reference lines of a coordinate system. However, my paraview >> just displayed a black square. >> I have also tried the non-MPI version and the precompiled version of >> Paraview. They worked fine. I don't know if the problem is MPI >> implementation problem. I have heard that SGI's MPI implementation is >> kind of different. However, other programs, such as glxgears, worked >> fine by using the SGI implementation. Also, if I use the x forwarding >> to start the MPI version of pvserver, the rendering result is also >> correct. So, I am not quite convinced that the problem is MPI problem >> and I am quiet confused. >> I will highly appreciate any of your comments. >> Thanks! >> >> Aaron >> _______________________________________________ >> ParaView mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > > > **** Kenneth Moreland > *** Sandia National Laboratories > *********** > *** *** *** email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 > *** fax: (505) 845-0833 > > > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
