[GRASS-user] NVIS problem

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 19 October 2007, Darrel Maddy wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Apologies if this has been covered before.
>
> I have just installed Ubuntu7.04 as a VM using Microsoft virtual PC2007
> (running under Vista x64 Ultimate). I downloaded the CVS and it compiled
> without error. Indeed there appeared to be no errors during
> installation. Grass62 starts fine and using the Spearfish60 dataset the
> elevation rasters show without any problem. The problems start when I
> invoke NVIZ (it does not matter whether I do this from the map window or
> from the command line) - it says waiting and then it appears to do
> nothing! I even let it 'wait' for 30 minutes but nothing appeared.
>
> It is sometime (nearly a year) since I last tried to use grass - am I
> overlooking something simple?

Probably something realted to how the VM arbitrates access to the video 
hardware - esp. with regards to OpenGL... try googling for related things?

Dylan


>
> Thanks
>
> Darrel
>
> Prof Darrel Maddy
> Chair of Quaternary Science
> University of Newcastle, UK
> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/darrel.maddy
>
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Dylan Beaudette
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