Cannot display on server

ParaView Support
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I have an NVIDIA Corporation GK104GL [Quadro K4200] in my cluster, but I’m experiencing very slow GPU rendering. I also receive the message: “Display is not accessible on the server side. Remote rendering will be disabled.” This issue is causing significant lag, and rendering tasks often lead to crashes. I would greatly appreciate any assistance in resolving this so that I can fully utilize the cluster’s capabilities. Additionally, the Kitware website link seems to be broken (404 error).

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Do your server have a GPU ?
Does your server run a graphical environnement ?
Which ParaView version are you using server side ?

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mslab@mslab-Precision-Tower-7910:~$ lshw -class display
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK104GL [Quadro K4200]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:90 memory:e8000000-e8ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:e9000000-e907ffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

This I have typed for finding display but I think this is not available to gpu or something due to not updating the driver

And I have tried using both osmessa and egl for the same

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For example is a XOrg server running ?

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Yes xorg was running

top - 19:23:06 up 6 days,  9:08,  1 user,  load average: 16.12, 16.10, 16.09
Tasks: 513 total,   2 running, 309 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.3 us,  2.6 sy,  0.0 ni, 97.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 13193588+total, 94888752 free,  4146124 used, 32901012 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  2097148 total,  2004720 free,    92428 used. 12672622+avail Mem
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                                            1514 root      20   0 6572132  29904  25340 R 100.0  0.0   3393:13 Xorg
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are you able to run glxinfo ?

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No Sir
127|:/data/user/0/com.server.auditor.ssh.client/files/private $ glxinfo
: glxinfo: inaccessible or not found

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You need to install glxinfo and make sure it works, eg using DISPLAY=:0 and xhost+. Only then will pvserver be able to work.

Alternatively, you can use the EGL release.

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