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Re: [SCIRUN-USERS] OpenGL Issues?


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  • From: Petar Petrov <pip010@gmail.com>
  • To: tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu>
  • Cc: "scirun-users@sci.utah.edu" <scirun-users@sci.utah.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [SCIRUN-USERS] OpenGL Issues?
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:13:48 +0100
Indeed, can you share the data or is too big?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:15 PM, tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hrm, your glxinfo looks totally valid. You might try upgrading the OGL
> drivers, you're at 319.37 and the latest are 331.49 or 334.21 depending on
> how you count.
>
> But it sounds to me like the bug doesn't lie in your OpenGL setup; SCIRun is
> the most likely culprit. I'm afraid you'll need someone with more SCIRun
> expertise than me to dig deeper.
>
> If you can send Subsample's output to WriteField and write out that tiny
> NRRD, I'm sure it would help them debug.
>
> -tom
>
>
> On 03/25/2014 05:40 PM, Hyde, Damon wrote:
>>
>> Hey Tom,
>> glxgears runs just fine. I tried turning SLI off, but am still
>> having the same issue with ConvertFieldsToTexture. The pipeline I'm
>> using currently looks like:
>>
>> ReadField -> SubsampleStructuredFieldByIndices -> ConvertFieldsToTexture
>>
>> I'm using the second module to chop out most of the data in the NRRD,
>> leaving just a 5x5x5 volume.
>>
>> Attached is the output of glxinfo.
>>
>> -D
>>
>> On 03/25/2014 11:46 AM, tom fogal wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Damon!
>>>
>>> Does 'glxgears' work?
>>>
>>> Given that the second cards are teslas, you probably want to disable
>>> SLI. Try:
>>>
>>> nvidia-xconfig --sli=off
>>>
>>> I believe you need to restart your X server after you do that.
>>>
>>> If you have no luck there, posting the output of 'glxinfo' to the list
>>> may be useful. Make sure to capture both stdout && stderr when logging
>>> it. IIRC glxgears and glxinfo are in the 'glx-utils' package on
>>> RH/CentOS.
>>>
>>> All that said, if 'ShowField' is working then your OpenGL setup is
>>> probably okay. Might just be a bug in ConvertFieldsToTexture. Reducing
>>> the pipeline as much as possible and using a (faked) tiny data file
>>> would probably help debug.
>>>
>>> -tom
>>>
>>> On 03/24/2014 08:28 PM, Hyde, Damon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm having some issues with SCIRun that I believe are related to the
>>>> video drivers and OpenGL. Specifically, I have compiled SCIRun 4.7 on a
>>>> workstation running CentOS 6.5. The build script completes, and SCIRun
>>>> opens fine. I'm using ReadField to input a NRRD file, and can visualize
>>>> it with showField.
>>>>
>>>> The issue arises with ConvertFieldsToTexture. The module seems to start
>>>> running, but never completes (or even shows a bit of progress). From
>>>> looking at the documentation a bit, it seems that this module relies on
>>>> OpenGL to run properly?
>>>>
>>>> The workstation I'm running on has not one, but three different NVIDIA
>>>> cards installed in it. A Quadro 6000 card and two Tesla 2050 cards.
>>>> I've tried compiling SCIRun with the drivers from the CUDA toolkit, as
>>>> well as the standalone NVIDIA drivers. Everything seems to check out as
>>>> far as having the drivers installed properly, but I'm guessing my issues
>>>> with SCIRun somehow stem from the unusual configuration. Does anyone
>>>> have ideas for a potential solution to this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Also just tried this with the latest trunk release and got the same
>>>> issues.
>>>>
>>>> -D
>>
>>
>



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All the best,
Petar Petrov
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