Wireframe views look like porcupines!

[Ron Inbar]

I think the bug is only found in the drivers supplied by Diamond, not in the
ones supplied by nVidia.  Try replacing your Viper drivers with TNT2 drivers
from nVidia's web site.

Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>
To: Giling, Erwin <Giling at TPD.TNO.NL>; <vtkusers at gsao.med.ge.com>
Sent: éåí çîéùé 04 ðåáîáø 1999 20:47
Subject: Re: Wireframe views look like porcupines!


> At 06:35 PM 11/4/99 +0100, Giling, Erwin wrote:
> >A curious problem:
> >
> >If I switch to wireframe mode with the "w" key and interact with the
window,
> >all my wireframe models start looking like porcupines, as if some outer
> >points are going out of bounds. In the sphere bench program, if I turn on
> >the stripper, the effect dissapears tough.
> >
> >I have a 22k jpeg if someone is interested. It looks quite artistic.
> >
> >This occurs with the 2.4 distribution, also after recompiling from
source.
> >It could have something to do with the OpenGL drivers? I'm using a TNT2
> >based card (Diamond V770), which is reported to have a decent ICD..
>
> This appears to be a bug in the TNT2 drivers. We have seen the same
> problem with all TNT2 cards and not with other cards.
>
> - Ken
>
>
>
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