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>I won’t be at office to play with Win10 until Monday, but at home on the >Centos 7 I am using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 w/2GB on >a dual display monitor. > >It seems to be any of the RGB composite images are the only ones causing me >problems. I get ‘error creating glsl shader >program’ when I try to do the >geocolor for example. But vis / IR / single bands / GLM / etc. all fine. > >The other areas I’m having trouble are surface: >METARs give me “Error making point data request” >Surface winds: “Error checking if plot is valid” >Surface temps, 24hr precip, etc. though are all good, including Synoptic Data >Plot. > >Oh I can’t show any winds aloft either – I can display 500mb HRRR heights for >example, but the wind spits back an error Hmmm, okay let's see if we can figure some of this out. First, based off of your glxinfo it looks like you aren't accessing your NVIDIA graphics driver, but your nouveau driver instead. You will need to blacklist nouveau so your computer will look at NVIDIA. If you need help with this I can google around and find some instructions - I've had to do this at a previous job before to get AWIPS to access the correct graphics driver. Additionally, the METARs and winds seem like a python issue. Have you had any issues displaying these before this recent upgrade of CAVE? What happens if you type "which python"? It should resolve to /awips2/python/bin/python. Are you accessing CAVE on your Centos7 machine remotely in any way (ssh, su -, etc.)? Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CBR-963818 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Low Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.