[Radiance-general] X 11 trouble with OS X

[Mark Stock]

Greg,

Right---it should be on the OSX disc. I've found that X11 runs 
itself when I run rvu. Tell us how it goes, Dave.

Mark

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Greg Ward wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Like Mark suggests, you may not have X11 installed (or running).  It is still 
> an optional install on many versions of Mac OS X, but it's there under the 
> Optional Installs of your system disk.  If you can't find it there, you can 
> also download it from Apple's website.  There should be no need to compile 
> it, but you will have to run it before starting rvu.
>
> Best,
> -Greg
>
>> From: Dave Bosworth <dboz66 at earthlink.net>
>> Date: February 20, 2008 4:41:01 PM PST
>> 
>> Hello -
>> 
>> I have been trying to get Radiance loaded to my OS X system (v. 10.4.11). 
>> I am new to UNIX, so the process has been a bit rocky - but - makeall 
>> install and makeall library worked out (mostly) fine, and I changed the 
>> /etc/profile file to include RAYPATH, and everything seemed to be working 
>> fine.  Commands like genprism work and the .oct file built OK.  However, 
>> when I went to run rview I get this error:
>> 
>> rview: cannot open X-windows; DISPLAY variable set?
>> rview: fatal - cannot initialize x11
>> 
>> I have tried setting DISPLAY=0 and no effect.  I even went so far as to 
>> write this little ditty into  /etc/profile on  the advice of a 
>> radiance-general user:
>> 
>> if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ];then echo -n
>> export DISPLAY=':0'
>> fi
>> 
>> also, no luck.  So, now I am begging the wisdom of more advanced users.
>> 
>> any advice?
>> 
>> thanks a million
>> 
>> Dave
>
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