[vtkusers] nvidia GeForce/GeForce2 cards with RedHat 6.2 and vtk

[Carlos Manzanares]

We are thinking also in buying nVIDIA cards (in fact, in a week we will have a new PC with
the nVIDIA GeForce).
The last week i went to the Linux/SGI meeting in Madrid and one of the main topics was
visualization under Linux and their new visual workstations.
I got some information there that could be very useful: SGI is using in their visual
workstations the chip nVIDIA GeForce and they have developed the Linux drivers with the
engineers from nVIDIA (more or less the actual engineers from nVIDIA are ex-SGI engineers...),
but i don't know if these drivers are the ones on the nVIDIA web page.
In a couple of weeks i will be able to really say if GeForce works with VTK/Linux...
About the XFree 4.0, i have already installed this version on a Matrox and it worked (without
hardware acceleration but it worked)

(I hope it can help a little bit...)
--Carlos--

Dave Reed wrote:

> I've seen nvidia cards mentioned on this list before when people ask
> about graphics cards, but I've never seen anyone say they had one
> working with Linux and vtk.
>
> I'm thinking about getting a 3D video card and it appears that
> nvidia's GeForce and GeForce2 are clearly the top performers.
> According to the XFree86.org web site, the GeForce card works with
> XFree86 3.3.6.
>
> >From what I've read, it appears that you need to download GL libraries
> from nvidia's web site to take advantage of the card (not
> surprisingly).
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny that vtk works well (i.e., compiles and
> takes advantage of the hardware acceleration) with these cards,
> nvidia's GL library and RedHat 6.2/XFree86 3.3.6?
>
> I understand that performance will be improved with XFree86 4.0 but I
> will probably wait for a distribution to come with 4.0.  If I'd get
> some benefit from the hardware with XFree86 3.3.6, I'd like to buy the
> card now, but if I'm still stuck with software rendering until driver
> issues get worked out, I'll wait (and let the prices drop too).
>
> If they do work, any recommendations on a specific manufacturer/card?
>
> Feel free to e-mail personally since this is slightly off topic for
> VTK and I can summarize if there's interest.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
> dreed at capital.edu
>
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