I had the same problem with Jaunty (9.04). After upgrading to 9.10 everything worked fine displaying laser data in rviz. ________________________________ From: Josh Faust To: ros-users@code.ros.org Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:44:04 Subject: Re: [ros-users] No Display in Rviz Jaunty (9.04) has fairly broken Intel graphics drivers.  I would recommend upgrading to 9.10 (Karmic). Josh On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:30 PM, shayan sengupta wrote: hi > >I am shayan sengupta.I am trying to run the Hokuyo node tutorial with URG-04LX-UG01. Everything works fine until I try running Rviz using command > >#rosrun rviz rviz -d `rospack find hokuyo_node`/hokuyo_test.vcg > >Rviz opens with no display i.e. a blank window.Also when I hit Ctrl C to terminate Rviz I get a X windows system error. >But I am able to see the laser data in comand line using command#rostopic echo /scan so i guess the LIDAR's working just fine and the problem is with Rviz. > >So please reply on how to fix this bug or whether I am missing out on any dependencies, etc. >BTW I am using the precompiled ROS binaries on Ubuntu 9.04 with Intel graphics card. > >Regards, >Shayan Sengupta > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >ros-users mailing list >ros-users@code.ros.org >https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > New Email names for you! Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/