[Paraview] Is there any point to compiling with MPI but without offscreen rendering?

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Tue Feb 12 12:16:31 EST 2013


I think I remember, try running pvpython with
--use-offscreen-rendering and then run the following script.

from paraview.simple import *
Sphere()
Show()
Render()

Does that still work?

Utkarsh

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Kevin H. Hobbs <hobbsk at ohio.edu> wrote:
> On 01/21/2013 02:35 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>> Kevin,
>>
>> I gave using GL and OSMesa together using Mesa-9.0.1 with a ParaView
>> 3.14.1 a try and unfortunately it still segfaults when creating a
>> context when using OSMesa
>
> How did you generate the segfault?
> Did you do an Xlib build or DRI? (shared glapi is disabled for xlib builds)
>
> I just did this build:
>
> http://open.cdash.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=2804770
>
> which has hardware accelerated rendering and OSMesa.
>
> Mesa was built with the script : update_mesa_dual.sh.
>
> It fared no worse than my other DRI Mesa ( neither xlib nor OSMesa) builds.
>
>


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