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

Wed Jun 1 10:16:32 EDT 2016

The code has been updated in VTK as of a month or two ago. But PV is using
an older version of the code. I doubt the new code would warn on your
system Cory, but until PV releases a new version (or build PV master) it
will continue to use the old code.

We definitely can dynamically test for it, that is basically what the
appleBug test does. To be safe with it I think on apple systems it would
cause a window to pop up briefly while it tests it. (offscreen might not
match onscreen)

Ken

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > To: Rick Angelini <Richard.C.Angelini.CIV at mail.mil>
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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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