[vtkusers] NVidia 1.0-2802 - don't see problem

[Simon Warfield]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:17:04AM -0500, vtkusers-request at public.kitware.com wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> With the NVidia 1.0-2802 drivers and XFree86 4.1 there's a reproducible
> problem with VTK (http://www.kitware.com/vtk/index.html), cvs checkout from
> 3.2 tree.  No new developments are performed on the 3.2 tree and this
> software is considered to be near bug-free.
> 
> To reproduce, build VTK and then build Cone3.cxx in vtk/graphics/examplesCxx
> by doing "make Cone3".  Running Cone3 results in a window with the cone
> rendered, but as soon as one interacts with the rendering the cone
> disappears.  By moving the window, then switching to wireframe and back to
> surface mode ('w' and then 's') the cone returns and interaction continues
> normally.  We could also tar up the whole build tree as well as included
> binaries and make this available for you to test on.  This should work on a
> GLIBC 2.2 system.
> 
> With the Mace.cxx example, it gets more interesting.  This makes use of two
> actors, a sphere and a collection of cones on the sphere.  It seems that the
> first actor (the sphere) is just not rendered (but the second one is) until
> one does the move-wireframe-surface trick.

Both the above examples work fine for me using 
redhat linux with kernel 2.4.9-13
XFree86 4.1.0-3
NVidia 1.0-2802  on a GeForce3 card.
vtk3.2
 
> All of this works fine with the 1.0.2314 and previous drivers.
> 
> As you know, your boards and linux drivers are quite popular in the graphics
> and visualisation communities and are often used in conjunction with VTK.
> Your assistance in investigating this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> If you need more information in tracking down this problem, please don't
> hesitate to contact either Robert Belleman (robbel at science.uva.nl) or Charl
> Botha (c.p.botha at its.tudelft.nl).  We could also tar up the whole VTK build 
> tree as well as included binaries and make this available for you to test
> on. This should work on a GLIBC 2.2 system.
> 
> Regards,
> Charl P. Botha
> Data Visualisation Group, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands
> http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/
> 
> Robert Belleman
> Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbel/
> 
> -- 
> charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/

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Simon