[Paraview] [Non-DoD Source] Re: ParaView 5.0.1 on an older Mac

[Cory Quammen]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY
RDECOM ARL (US) <richard.c.angelini.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> This system is still running 10.9 and is scheduled for a 10.11 upgrade in
> the near-term – presumably the warning message will go away with 10.11 …….

Not unless the upgrade includes a driver upgrade for the graphics
hardware to one of the white-listed graphics drivers. I know this
because my Mac with 10.11 complained, but it didn't exhibit the buggy
behavior, so I added it's hardware to the white list.

Ken, could we test for the Apple bug dynamically in VTK or in ParaView
in any easy way?

Thanks,
Cory


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> From: Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 4:31 PM
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> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Paraview] ParaView 5.0.1 on an older Mac
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> Richard,
>    You will get this warning/error message on any OS X machine using ATI/AMD
> graphics hardware running OS X 10.10 or earlier. OS X 10.11 corrected an
> OpenGL driver issue that this error is reporting. It is down in the VTK
> stack. I do not know if we should be worried or not about the warning/error.
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> Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <
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> May 31, 2016 at 4:07 PM
> I have the following message from one of my local ParaView users:
>
> Following is the message I am getting with the Paraview 5 client on the Mac.
> It appears to work in spite of this warning.
>
> Warning: In
> /Users/kitware/buildbot-slave/paraview-bigmac-osx-shared-release_opengl2_osx10_7_qt4_superbuild/build/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLPolyDataMapper.cxx,
> line 2856
> vtkCompositeMapperHelper (0x7fbc4b0e7800): VTK is working around a bug in
> Apple-AMD hardware related to gl_PrimitiveID.  This may cause significant
> memory and performance impacts. Your hardware has been identified as vendor
> ATI Technologies Inc. with renderer of ATI Radeon HD 5770 OpenGL Engine and
> version 4.1 ATI-1.24.39
>
> About this Mac has the following information about my system:
> Graphics  ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
>
>
> The user does not see this error running ParaView 4.x.x … so – presumably
> this warning message is related to OpenGL2 running on an older graphics
> card???    Is this something we should be worried about in the short-term?
> I’m not sure how much longer this older Mac will be in service – but will we
> run in to issues with OpenGL2 which will preclude it from working on these
> older systems?
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Cory Quammen
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