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Hello all, We¹re using x-win32 (Windows) & maclive (Mac) to connect to our debian llinux machine (with 196Gb of RAM) which provides enough java heap space to load global / large grids in the IDV. It¹s a commercial product sold by http://www.starnet.com. You have resume & suspend and X11-tunnel session sharing. Java 3D is working too. Tyn Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Hengelosestraat 99 M: +31 (0)6 29072718 P.O.Box 217 F: +31 (0)53 4874575 7500AE Enschede E: v.venus[at]utwente.nl The Netherlands I: www.itc.nl <http://www.itc.nl/> Be green keep it on the screen On 03/09/2013 17:08:25, "Tyle, Kevin R" <ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Brian, > >If you could please email me offline the contact info for the Yellowstone >folks who installed IDV and TurboVNC, that would be great. While I've >successfully built and installed TurboVNC and VirtualGL, I've not been >able to get the GLX extensions to load in the virtual X servers, only in >the primary one. > >However, I've been able to run an ISL script using a headless setup, >simply by running an X server configured for "headless" mode. This >entails placing an option in the Screen stanza in your Xorg.conf: > >Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none" > >This works with an Nvidia graphics card, using the proprietary Nvidia >drivers. I will see if it also works with the AMD/Radeon cards. > >In practice, one logs into the headless server, sets DISPLAY to :0, and >runs the script. I've successfully run a simple GOES-East >image-displaying ISL script both interactively, via a shell script, and >via a cron job. > >Maybe this eliminates the need for virtual X servers when generating >graphics with IDV scripts?? > >Comments welcome. > >Thanks, > >--Kevin > >_____________________________________________ >Kevin Tyle, Systems Administrator >Dept. of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences >University at Albany >Earth Science 235, 1400 Washington Avenue >Albany, NY 12222 >Email: ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx >Phone: 518-442-4578 >_____________________________________________ > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian Mapes [mailto:bmapes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 4:58 PM >To: Tyle, Kevin R >Cc: idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [idvusers] ISL script examples please? (and dreams) > >I got the NCAR Yellowstone/ geyser analysis machine people to install IDV >there. That uses turboVNC if I recall. But they didnt teach me the howto >issues, they just made it work. > >In case anyone wants use details just ask. > >Brian Mapes >This message was typed on a cell phone, please forgive its terseness and >any errors. > >On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:07 PM, "Tyle, Kevin R" <ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Don, Brendon, et al.: >> >> Re: virtual X server and IDV: >> >> I've been investigating the TurboVNC/VirtualGL packages to see if I can >>get IDV to work properly on a server that does not run a real X server >>... still in the preliminary stages. If anyone else has tried, though, >>do let us know! >> >> --Kevin >> >> _____________________________________________ >> Kevin Tyle, Systems Administrator >> Dept. of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences >> University at Albany >> Earth Science 235, 1400 Washington Avenue >> Albany, NY 12222 >> Email: ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx >> Phone: 518-442-4578 >> _____________________________________________ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Murray >> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:46 PM >> To: idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [idvusers] ISL script examples please? (and dreams) >> >> Thanks for the clarifications, Brendon! Nice work! >> >> Don >> >> On 8/28/13 1:44 PM, Brendon Hoch wrote: >>> Don Murray wrote: >>>> Hi Brendon- >>>> >>>> Thanks for this information. Hopefully it will help others along. >>>> A couple of questions/comments: >>>> >>>> - did you have to install the old Java 3D library to get this to >>>> work with Xvfb? Kevin Tyle has been looking at this for supporting >>>> the IDV image generation in RAMADDA, so if you've found a solution >>>> without that, we should chat offline. >>> >>> I believe I used the "legacy" Java 3D library during the IDV install >>> process as recommended by previous users. Nothing else special... >>> >>>> - You could do the annotation in ISL as well - it supports image and >>>> text overlays with the <overlay> tag. You can control the font and >>>> background color of the text. Is there a reason you are using >>>> convert instead? >>> >>> We use convert to caption much of our other image generation from >>> Gempak, so it was easier to recycle existing code. >>> >>>> - you can also create animated gifs with convert using the -loop >>>>option . >>> >>> Generating gifs (or animated gifs) didn't work with idv + Xvfb, only >>>png . >>> >>> Another issue was a limitation based on our mapwall configuration. >>> Previously, we used Imagemagick's "display" command for showing >>> imagery on a screen with the "-window root" option (clean, full >>> screen image without window borders). This works fine with older >>> flavors of Linux that treat a quad-head graphics card with multiple >>> monitors as separate screens (0.0, 0.1, 0.2, etc). Newer versions of >>> Linux treat multiple monitors as one big screen, so an alternative was >>>needed. >>> I'm now using "feh" to display individual images in a multi-screen >>> environment. It allows you to set exactly on your "screen" where you >>> want the image by specifying a size & offset using the -g option. >>> Based on our setup, feh worked better with individual gifs than >>>animated gifs. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Brendon >>>> >>>> As Jeff McWhirter used to say - ISL is the most fully documented >>>> code in IDV. Glad you found it worked for you. >>>> >>>> Don >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 8/28/13 6:31 AM, Brendon Hoch wrote: >>>>> Brian, >>>>> >>>>> I've attached an isl script, shell script, and bundle that I've >>>>> been using for the past few months to generate a real time >>>>> satellite imagery loop for our mapwall display. Some notes: >>>>> >>>>> - We're using Centos 5.8 64 bit with plans to move to CentOS 6.x in >>>>> the near future. >>>>> - Script is scheduled for generation every 30 minutes at :14 & :44 >>>>> to give enough time for satellite images to populate on ADDE servers. >>>>> - We're using stock Xvfb for a display buffer. Xvfb runs all the >>>>> time, you might need to create a startup script, which you should >>>>> be able to find examples of by searching the web based on your linux >>>>>flavor. >>>>> - Historically, 64 bit IDV has had issues generating gifs with Xvfb. >>>>> But, it seemed to work ok for generating png files. So, I convert >>>>> from png to gif using Imagemagick's convert command. I also use >>>>> Imagemagick to add nice labels to the image. I use gifsicle to >>>>> generate an animated gif. >>>>> - I haven't tried generating .mov files because our mapwall display >>>>> doesn't use them, but the process should be similar. The ISL >>>>> documentation is actually quite good (the hardest part is finding >>>>> it!) >>>>> >>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>> Brendon >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> idvusers mailing list >>>>> idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: >>>>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >> >> -- >> Don Murray >> NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES >> 303-497-3596 >> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> idvusers mailing list >> idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> idvusers mailing list >> idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > >_______________________________________________ >idvusers mailing list >idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: >http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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