Re: [Chromium-users] Black screen with OpenPerformer

[Eric S. <er...@sa...>]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 11:44:47 Brian Paul wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am having a problem when using Chromium 1.9 and SGI's OpenPerformer
> > 3.2.2. When we run our program with the attached tiles.conf and vrcim.in
> > (I am aware the tiles.conf isn't entirely configured from vrcim.in ;), =
my
> > first intention was to get the program working, then I'll clean (I am
> > also aware this doesn't always happen :)). When we try to run our
> > program, our expected output windows are opened on the tiles, but then a
> > black window is opened above them. We can move these windows out of the
> > way, but this is very inconvenient. I am not sure where they are coming
> > from, so any hints on where I can look to find out or others who have
> > experienced this would be much appreciated.
>
> In the docs look for "Configuration options for app nodes" and the
> "track_window_visibility" option.

Ahh, my bad, I forgot to mention what I've tried to fix this. ;) I have rea=
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the FAQs and set track_window_visibility to "1" (enabled). Without this=20
option we got many windows popping up, but they weren't entirely black as=20
they had the "SGI OpenPerformer" logo on them (but no other output). With t=
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track_window_visibility =3D 1 we have just this one black window. Once the=
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black windows are moved out of the way our program runs without other issue=
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We have tried playing with the Performer window types and found that=20
PFPWIN_TYPE_SHARE works the best for Performer (PFPWIN_TYPE_X doesn't quite=
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work, I'd have to re-enable it to remember what issues it caused).  We are=
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using only one pipe and one processor in Performer.

Some details I forgot to mention:
  CPU: Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz
  OS: RHEL 4
  Video Card: nVidia NV45GL Quadro FX 3400/4400
  Video driver: nVidia 1.0-9775

Thank you,

=2Dsandalle

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