[Paraview] Question about mangled mesa/osmesa

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:36 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
< snip >
> > 
> > Building Mangled Mesa for Fedora Extras is a good idea! I've never had
> > ParaView with mesa and mangled mesa working though. I hear the mangling
> > in the newest stable version is broken somehow.
> 
> Any details on this?

Unfortunately no. I'm only going off of Mailing list postings like this:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2006-April/084799.html

It could be as simple as Mangled Mesa 6.0.1 is reported to work, 6.5
( the current CVS version ) is reported not to work, while no body has
said anything about 6.4.2.

> 
> > I've always assumed VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA and VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA were
> > mutually exclusive, because if OpenGL had an OSMesa I wouldn't need a
> > Mangled Mesa. Maybe that's why it never works for me.
> 
> Those options are.  I'm wondering if using VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA would 
> somehow prevent that version of paraview from using on screen rendering. 
>   I'm guessing not, but would like to be sure.
> 

I hope not. 

The only thing that's worked for me for both onscreen and offscreen
rendering is to use Mesa 6.4.2 with no DRI as the only GL. 
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