It sounds like you are having a framebuffer readback issue. Can you check to see if your OpenGL drivers are up to date?
-Ken On 9/22/08 11:39 AM, "Biao She" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > **** 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
