Can't run Paraview successfully on Linux mint

ParaView Support
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I’m using Linux Mint 19.1 on an office computer which has an NVIDIA graphics card and I’m trying to run Paraview on it. It used to work a while back, but for some reason it’s not working anymore.

I’ve first tried to install via command-line with apt install paraview. When I run Paraview installed via this method, the Paraview window opens but it stays all gray and the header says "Paraview 5.4.1 64-bit (Legacy rendering backend). (And I obviously can’t do anything because the whole window is gray.)

If I try to download and run the binaries (I’ve tried versions 5.2 to 5.6.2) they don’t open anything. I just get a message on the terminal saying Aborted.

I suspect the issue has to do with the NVIDIA drivers, but I’m really not familiar with graphics card enough to figure out what’s going on. When I follow this answer to check if NVIDIA is working, the output is that it is:

$ lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [NVS 310] [10de:107d] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Any ideas on what’s going on?

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I would recommend not using this outdated version.

NVS 310

This is a very specific professional card, I do not think ParaView is tested on it.
Please provide the output of glxinfo.

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@mwestphal

Thanks for the reply. Here’s the output:

name of display: :0
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  85
  Current serial number in output stream:  86

As for NVS 310, seems like it’s the card model, right? Since this is an office desktop I can’t change that.

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NVS310 is indeed your GPU, It juste strike me as odd.
According to wikipedia, it is a 2012 card, very old, and :

The Nvidia Quadro NVS graphics processing units (GPUs) provide business graphics solutions for manufacturers of small, medium, and enterprise-level business workstations. The Nvidia Quadro NVS desktop solutions enable multi-display graphics for businesses such as financial traders.

So, can you check this is actually your GPU model ?

In any case, your glxinfo output clearly shows the you either of driver issue (not the correct drivers installed or not up to date), or a GPU hardware issue (less likely).

You will have to fix that first.