[GRASSLIST:8611] Re: NVIZ not working properly in GRASS 6?

[Trevor Wiens]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:02:21 -0600
Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:26:50PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rbeyer at arc.nasa.gov> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > I'm running X.org 6.8.2 which also has these libraries.  So I'm guessing
> > that's not it, but I don't know much about these things, maybe it is?

Me too

> 
> I have Grass 6(cvs) installed on my home FreeBSD 5.4 machine (also running
> X.org 6.8.2), my office FreeBSD 4.11 machine (running XFree86 4.3.0) and my 
> laptop FreeBSD 4.11 machine (also running XFree86 4.3.0).  Both the home and 
> office machine use NVIDIA video card with NVIDIA drivers --- these replace 
> MesaGL with an accelerated set of GL libraries specific to NVIDIA cards.  
> NVIZ works beautifully on both of those machines.  On the laptop, which has 
> only its built-in ATI Mobility video card and uses MesaGL, NVIZ gets the black 
> rectangle instead of the 3-D scene and is useless.  All the controls in NVIZ 
> act like they're working, but the actual rendered scene never shows up.

I'm also using a NVIDIA card have the x.org drivers installed as well. I get the same phenomena, blackness (and dead slowness) for 6.1, but everything works in 6.0.

T
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