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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:58:13 EST, "Bobby" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>I tried this as well...
>export DISPLAY=localhost
I think this should read
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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>Installed from source? I'm thinking maybe it compiled without X11
>support...
Hi all,
I'm using Gentoo Linux 1.4. It's a source based distro.
Yes, I did infact compile povray from source with support for: X and svga.
The strange thing here is, I compiled povray on my workstation with the
exact same settings and it works as it should without any tinkering.
However like I mentioned earlier in this thread, on my laptop something
seems to be hosed.
I have tried to recompile povray about 4 times with the same results. I was
thinking I had a bad build or something.
Thanks,
Bobby
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Just an update.
I removed the povray that I compiled and downloaded the binary files from
povray.org.
I ran the install script and tried to render a scene but the same problem
persists. No display output while rendering?
Thanks,
Bobby
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Bobby wrote:
> Just an update.
>
> I removed the povray that I compiled and downloaded the binary files from
> povray.org.
>
> I ran the install script and tried to render a scene but the same problem
> persists. No display output while rendering?
This is very unlikely to say the least, if povray is not able to start
an X-Display (DISPLAY environment variable not set) it will use text
mode display which does not look pretty but it is more than no display
at all. You should make sure it is really the official povray starting
and not a different version.
If it still does not work please post the complete text output from
POV-Ray you get.
Christoph
--
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
Last updated 11 Jan. 2004 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______
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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:h3o### [at] tritonimagicode...
<snip>
> Please tell what version you are using, the problems you describe quite
> strongly indicate that it is not the official binary but a custom compile.
>
> Christoph
Yeah, I agree -- PovRay is extremely stable on Linux and I've never seen it
fail. What really concerns me is that -geometry doesn't work. That really
leads me to believe that you have a custom compile.
Hey, by any chance, do you have povray as a script somewhere? That might
explain it too. Try "which povray" and look at the file. If it is binary,
you're okay on that front.
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>Hey, by any chance, do you have povray as a script somewhere? That might
>explain it too. Try "which povray" and look at the file. If it is binary,
>you're okay on that front.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I decided to reinstall everything. Now things
are worse off than they originally were.
Here we go.
I have a clean system. I downloaded povray from povray.org. I ran the
install script as root.
In the console I type:
$whereis povray
povray: /usr/local/bin/povray
I noticed that the sample scenes are located at:
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5
so I cd into that directory and into the scenes/advanced folder.
Now to render.as normal user....
# /usr/local/bin/povray diffract.pov
Of course I get a nasty error:
--------------------------------------
Parsing...Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Reading from
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5/scenes/advanced/diffract.pov is not permitted.
Check the configuration in /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf.
--------------------------------------
Ok now onto my problem. There is no configuration file located at
/usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf ?????????????????
I would be more than happy to create it myself but I don't even know what
goes in there.
Surely this install has to be easier than this? I must have done something
wrong. Compiling from source was easier but did not offer me a progressive
render view?
Thanks
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Bobby wrote:
>[...]
>
> Now to render.as normal user....
> # /usr/local/bin/povray diffract.pov
>
> Of course I get a nasty error:
> --------------------------------------
> Parsing...Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Reading from
> /usr/local/share/povray-3.5/scenes/advanced/diffract.pov is not permitted.
> Check the configuration in /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf.
> --------------------------------------
>
> Ok now onto my problem. There is no configuration file located at
> /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf ?????????????????
>
> I would be more than happy to create it myself but I don't even know what
> goes in there.
There is a sample povray.conf file included in the binary package that
is copied to /usr/local/share/povray-3.5 by the install script. Just
copy it to /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf and things will
work. The syntax of this file is described in the docs. Note the
install script will be much more comfortable in the next version, in 3.5
it is fairly sparse.
Note that you will still get an error with your command unless you have
file output disabled in your povray.ini - povray will try to write the
image file into the current dir and fail.
Christoph
--
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
Last updated 11 Jan. 2004 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______
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>There is a sample povray.conf file included in the binary package that
>is copied to /usr/local/share/povray-3.5 by the install script. Just
>copy it to /usr/local/etc/povray.conf or ~/.povray.conf and things will
>work. The syntax of this file is described in the docs. Note the
>install script will be much more comfortable in the next version, in 3.5
>it is fairly sparse.
>
>Note that you will still get an error with your command unless you have
>file output disabled in your povray.ini - povray will try to write the
>image file into the current dir and fail.
>
FINALLY! It Works! Thank you to everyone for helping me!
It is a bit odd that compiling it from source did not work for me. Could be
that my configurations were hosed. Either way, I'm happy now that
everything is working. Time to do some raytracing!
Thanks!
Bobby
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"Bobby" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
news:web.40057af06d14ca17bf698f0e0@news.povray.org...
<sniip>
> FINALLY! It Works! Thank you to everyone for helping me!
> It is a bit odd that compiling it from source did not work for me. Could
be
> that my configurations were hosed. Either way, I'm happy now that
> everything is working. Time to do some raytracing!
WOOT! Roll them sleeves up and welcome to the sleepless nights of PovRay
(sleepless because you don't want to go to bed because you just gotta make
one more tweek... just one more... and one more...)
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