[Paraview] stereo wall configuration

Wed Jul 9 13:24:59 EDT 2008

Sorry.  I see that the -display parameter option was added after the 3.2 release.  You could try the env program to directly set the DISPLAY parameter.

  env DISPLAY=:0.1 pvserver ...

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Shinpaugh [mailto:shpatric at vt.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:46 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] stereo wall configuration
>
> I believe this is a different message from the one I had seen when I
> first connected to the pvserver on our stereo wall though very similar
> but I am fairly certain it closed of its own accord. The attached file
> is the warning from our 4 wall cave where the client and each server (1
> per wall) is running on a separate machine. The xhost program is used to
> allow X server connections between the console/client machine and the
> display/server machines. Each of the 4 machines where the pvserver is
> running is running xinit in run level 3 with an xclock without kdm or
> gdm. From the console machine I am able to run xterm or any other X
> based program to the displays of the other 4 machines without an issue
> which will show on the CAVE wall. I can also ssh into any of those
> machines and set the DISPLAY to :0.0 and run an X app which will show on
> the CAVE wall. So, the display should be accessible to any local process
> whether created by mpirun (which is using ssh to get to those machines)
> or otherwise.
>
> Pat
>
>
> Patrick Shinpaugh wrote:
> > I get the following:
> >
> > $ pvserver -display :0.1 /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
> > Got unknown argument: -display
> >
> > --cave-configuration=opt
> > -cc=opt Specify the file that defines the displays for a cave. It is
> > used only with CaveRenderModule.
> > ....
> >
> >
> > Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> >> Try "-display :0.1".
> >>
> >> -Ken
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/8/08 10:15 AM, "Patrick Shinpaugh" <shpatric at vt.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Only the client is displaying on :0.0 and nothing on :0.1. I didn't
> see
> >>> a -display option when I ran pvserver with --help but I tried it
> >>> anyway.
> >>> Both -display=:0.1 and --display=:0.1 resulted in the usage
> information
> >>> being printed out rather than starting the pvserver.
> >>>
> >>> Thinking back on it, I did see a dialog box the first time I got the
> >>> client to connect to the server which said something about a bad X
> >>> connection. Unfortunately, subsequent attempts to read the message
> fail
> >>> because the dialog box appears and disappears almost immediately (no
> >>> okay button) - nothing is shown in the output window to specify what
> >>> error may have occurred and nothing shows on the command line where
> the
> >>> pvserver or paraview client were run except "Client connected.".
> >>>
> >>> If there is a bad X connection, there should not be as I can simply
> run
> >>> `DISPLAY=:0.1 xterm` from a terminal in :0.0 and an xterm will
> >>> appear in
> >>> :0.1. I do have the Composite extension disabled which is necessary to
> >>> run active stereo (PV built with this->StereoType =
> >>> VTK_STEREO_CRYSTAL_EYES;) and the xorg.conf does have Option "Stereo"
> >>> "3" for screen 1 and is not present for screen 0. Also, I can run
> >>> active
> >>> stereo in other applications such as VMD with the visual being
> >>> displayed
> >>> on the :0.1 display.
> >>>
> >>> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Pat
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> >>>> Is pvserver creating a window on the first screen? It could be that
> >>>> the
> >>>> DISPLAY environment is not being set right. That would probably be
> >>>> a bug in
> >>>> the pvx file processing, but you should be able to get around it by
> >>>> passing
> >>>> a -display flag to the pvserver program.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Ken
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 7/7/08 1:19 PM, "Patrick Shinpaugh" <shpatric at vt.edu> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> I upgraded from ParaView-2.6.1 to ParaView-3.2.2 on our stereo wall
> >>>>> (CentOS linux built with openmpi). After updating our command line
> >>>>> script and adding a default_servers.pvsc file I am finally able to
> >>>>> connect to the pvserver running on localhost. Unfortunately, it is
> >>>>> not
> >>>>> creating a window on the :0.1 screen. Any idea what I might be doing
> >>>>> wrong? Or is there an easier way to render on the second screen?
> >>>>> We want
> >>>>> a client on screen 0 and a full screen window on screen 1 which
> >>>>> used to
> >>>>> work in PV-2.6.1. Stereo 3 is enabled in X for the screen 1 not on
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> screen 0. Pertinent files shown below (note - the lines commented
> >>>>> with #
> >>>>> showing the filename are not part of the actual files):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *********************************************
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # /usr/local/bin/paraview-wall
> >>>>> export
> >>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt-4.2.3/lib:/usr/lib/openmpi/1.2.5-
> gcc/lib:$LD_L
> >>>>>
> >>>>> IB
> >>>>> RARY_PATH
> >>>>> mpirun -np 1 pvserver /etc/paraview/wall.pvx &
> >>>>> sleep 5
> >>>>> /usr/local/paraview/bin/paraview --server=localhost --stereo
> >>>>> /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *********************************************
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # /etc/paraview/wall.pvx
> >>>>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> >>>>> <pvx>
> >>>>> <Process Type="client" />
> >>>>> <Process Type="server" >
> >>>>> <Machine Name="localhost"
> >>>>> Environment="DISPLAY=:0.1"
> >>>>> LowerLeft="-1.0 -1.0 -1.0"
> >>>>> LowerRight="1.0 -1.0 -1.0"
> >>>>> UpperLeft="-1.0 1.0 -1.0" />
> >>>>> </Process>
> >>>>> </pvx>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *********************************************
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # /usr/local/paraview/lib/paraview-3.2/default_servers.pvsc
> >>>>> <Servers>
> >>>>> <Server name="localhost" resource="cs://localhost:11111">
> >>>>> <ManualStartup/>
> >>>>> </Server>
> >>>>> </Servers>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Pat
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Patrick Shinpaugh
> >>>>> Virginia Tech
> >>>>> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
> >>>>> 540-231-2054
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> --
> >>> Patrick Shinpaugh
> >>> Virginia Tech
> >>> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
> >>> 540-231-2054
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Patrick Shinpaugh
> Virginia Tech
> UVAG System Administrator/Programmer
> 540-231-2054