rviz black screen [closed]
Hello together,
when I try to start rviz in 60% of the tries the rviz screen just stays black. Starting with the same parameters! When Rviz on time stayed black the chance is smaller that the next try works. Sometimes there a 20 tries with only black screens. After doing a while different stuff the chance get higher that rviz works agagin. I dont have any clue which factor influences rviz to work or not to work.
Edit: This was the problem: I suggest the problem could be that I run my ROS-Enviroment on a ubuntu in the vmware-player. Maybe the virtual graphic-card of the vamware-image doesnt fit with rviz.
Many thanks in advance Dominik
I get the same thing running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit natively with ATI graphics card. I have not seen this on any laptops/desktops with Nvidia cards.
Which ROS release are you using? I had similar problems on Electric, but haven't experienced it at all since installing Fuerte. I'm also running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit natively, with an ATI graphics card.
Im using also Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit natively with an ATI graphics card. I use Fuerte.
So, you are running Fuerte on a Ubuntu that's running inside a vmware-player, which is running on a native Ubuntu? This could be a problem: http://answers.ros.org/question/35172/does-rviz-run-properly-on-a-virtual-machine-i-followed-all-instructions-but-the-display-is-just-a-blank-screen/
But there seems to be no solution, except installing ubuntu on a single partition. This would be pretty uncomfortable, especially using visual studio for programming. Are there more proposals? Meanwhile I try to follow the Answer.
Did changing OGRE_RTT_MODE (as suggested in the answer by @stephanem) help? For me, deleting the whole ~/.rviz directory prior to starting rviz would sometimes help.