Peter, Andrew, Thanks for the suggestions.
Peter, the machine is an HP ProBook 4720s Laptop that I use as a sort of "mobile desktop", and I do not have access to its internals. Besides being the only machine I can work on now, I cannot tinker with its hardware! I've been using for about a year now with no problem. Could it be that something has worn out power supply from the PCI bus? (I often charge my phone via the usb slot.). If so, can one add (or redirect) power externally? Andrew, I tried another monitor--a CRT--at the time but it did not display anything. Since I could not repeat the event, I could only surmise the screen and/or the keyboard (to switch on multi-display) or the USB Hard drive might have been compromised. (a fsck proved the USB HD drive clean!) How does one test the fan of the GPU? Sorry for dumb question. I noticed lately that the fan of the machine goes on for much longer than in times past. Looking back, could briefly using the machine in dusty work environment sometime back have such an adverse effect? (Machine is supposed to be a laptop!) Another issue I don't understand is why the same paraview program, run via chroot under the livedvd (6.0), found the same display okay, but does not find it okay when the system is booted directly! Regards, William. >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:46 PM >Subject: WG: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > > >Hi William, > >some high-end graphics cards (our Nvidia Quadro cards) need additional power, >so a special power cable must be connected to the graphics card. >With normal low resolution the graphics cards work fine without this cable, >but with higher resolution the power from PCI bus ist no longer sufficient and >we got a blank screen. > >Peter > >Dr. Peter Stauffert >Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG > > >Von:[email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Andrew Z >Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. November 2012 14:36 >An: William Shu >Cc: SCIENTIFIC- LINUX- USERS@ FNAL. GOV >Betreff: Re: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > >William >Check if fan on your gpu actually works. >Try another monitor. >I had similar odd behavior a while ago. >On Nov 20, 2012 4:45 AM, "William Shu" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Dear All, > >I state the basic problem, then give further explanations below. Any help >appreciated, especially as I'm just groping! > > My basic problems are: >----------------------- >(1) to ascertain the cause of the black screen (blank, not blank) I sometimes >obtain, and I'm forced to switch off power and reboot and how to solve it. >(2) to get paraview to display on screen, without aborting with the message: >< ...> >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >ERROR: In >/builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, >line 404 >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual ><...> >ERROR: In >/builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, >line 631 >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting. > > >What I have done so far: >------------------------ >Googling and fumbling along, I managed to install kmod-fglrx and fglrx-x11-drv >which I seem to need, given an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics card. > >Before doing this, my screen went black (i.e., black, with no light, not >blank) a couple of times, and resumed on its own, sometimes after touching the >keyboard and mouse. Until now, I put it down to perhaps screen saver >activities.) > >Then disaster struck: the screen went black again, indefinitely, and I had to >force a shutdown (keeping the power button down for a while). Repeated >attempts at booting did not help, and could not do fsck with a rescue disk >because the external USB hard drive was encrypted. I finally ran a livecd >(6.0) where I used cryptsetup to open drive, and > >chroot $NEWROOT bash -i -l > >to mount the partition. I also had to create /dev/{random,urandom,null,zero} >in the new root, programs like yum could run. After this, I succeffully >rebooted the machine! > >Surprisingly, paraview could open, though it gave a message along the lines of >"all authentication could not be done" (sorry, I did not successfully copy the >message). > >Unfortunately, paraview cannot work with error messages as given below. > >I will be grateful for any assistance, and possible solutions. > > > > > >Details: >---------- >[wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'fglrx*' >fglrx-x11-drv-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686 >[wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'kmod-fglrx*' >kmod-fglrx-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686 >[wss@localhost ~]$ uname -a >Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 11:21:36 >CST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux >[wss@localhost ~]$ >[wss@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i VGA >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device >[1002:68e4] >[wss@localhost ~]$ grep -i 1002 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i >68e4/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon >/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx >/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon >/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx >/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon >/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias >pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx >[wss@localhost ~]$ > >paraview error message: >-------------------------------- >[wss@localhost ~]$ paraview >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x14d >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800229 >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >ERROR: In >/builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, >line 404 >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > > > >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b >ERROR: In >/builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, >line 404 >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > > > >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 >X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 >ERROR: In >/builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, >line 631 >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting. > > >Aborted >[wss@localhost ~]$ > >
