[vtkusers] vtk and toshiba satellite 2800 notebook

[stefano mininel]

Very likely the answer is: old graphic hardware, badly optimized for OpenGL.
To be sure, try with something VERY simple to render (the cone example maybe) and see if it
runs and how fast.
If it works, but very slow, it is a GPU performance problem.
If you really need VTK on a notebook IMHO you should choose one with a GeForce graphic chipset.

Guillermo Kalocai wrote:

> I've installed vtk in a toshiba stallite 2800 (OS is W2000) and it shows an
> odd behavior.  Projects building with VC++ run smoothly but at rendering
> time nothing appears. Render window shows up with black background but the
> mouse pointer remains the hourglass and nothing gets rendered. Of course I
> cannot close this window unless I stop its execution from the IDE.
> Different projects behave the same.
>
> The graphics hardware spec is
>
> S3 Savage/IX graphics controller
> 64 bits accelerator
> 2X AGP bus
> 128 bitBLT
> 8MBy internal RAM
>
> Did anybody out there managed to fix this sort of problem or can give any
> advise ?
> Thank all of you for any help you cah handle. Best regards.
>
> ____guillermo kalocai, <g.kalocai at ieee.org>____
>
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