Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSH-friendly build options?

[Josh Blum]

For the wx-gui sinks, try
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/CompGrWxgui#Enable-the-GL-Sinks

and set style=nongl

-josh

On 02/20/2011 01:51 PM, dave wrote:
> My USRP is in a "lab" hooked to a pc, but I like to ssh -Y into it from
> more pleasant parts of the house using my netbook.  It worked great for
> gnuradio and most other applications until I installed NVIDIA drivers on
> the lab PC in order to enable cuda GPU processing.  (Cuda made my
> processing applications much faster and I hope to integrate it with USRP
> output soon.)  Most applications still work fine remotely, including
> fairly graphic-intensive ones such as Google-earth and several QT-based
> programs.  
> 
> About that time I re-built gnuradio and now if I try to run any of the
> graphic sinks remotely I get the error:
> 
> Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:10.0".
> 
> If I run the same application on another PC that uses the Nouveau
> drivers instead of the Nvidia drivers I can ssh into that PC from my
> netbook and everything runs fine.  My guess is that the compile
> processes used the best available graphics on the computer it was built
> on even though the graphics requirements are fairly modest.
> 
> I tried VNC but it's much too sluggish to use, especially for wiggly
> scope plots.  When it works, X over ssh is almost like being directly on
> the machine in the messy room with the antenna drop and the noisy beige
> box, except I'm comfy on the couch.
> 
> Is there some sort of build configure option that will not cause the
> executable to use the Nvidia proprietary graphics calls, but more
> portable ones instead?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
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