[vtkusers] problem with vtk on linux (debian) with opengl libs from

[Meshulum Laks]

Dear Mathieu,

I am very grateful for all of your help.
I jgave up. I ust pulled the 9800xt card and removed the ati radeon drivers 
and installed a nvidia 5950 utra and ran the nvidia intaller and it ran 
immediately. 
Beautiful Cones!!!! no vtk problems!!
gears of 6000+ frames per second!!!

nvidia rules!!!

I probably could have gotten the ati working, but I really want to learn VTK 
and ITK and build my open source dicom workstation for linux, not figure out 
ati radeon drivers. So I am getting rid of the radeon- putting it in the 
windows pc workstation that yielded the nvidia card, and I am glad I had both 
to try.

You are a very kind and helpful person, and I look forward to asking 
substantive vtk questions as I get through the examples.!!!
Thanks,
MItchell

On Monday 18 October 2004 10:10 am, you wrote:

> Meshulum Laks wrote:
> > One additional point
> > I mention also that I clearly again have a satisfactory install of opengl
> > for the ati radeon driver
> > as when i run the application
> > fgl_glxgears that was installed by the fglrx deb
> > it again runs with speeds of 600frames/persecond
> >
> > It seems to be a problem with running vtk via these drivers itself
> >
> > is there a viable alternative, and what have others done...
> > also how to trick debian apt to deal with this kind of shared library
> > conflict in /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 etc
> > so that i can get my kde back?
>
> Mitchell,
>
> 	Ok I reread the instructions on:
>
> http://www.watchland.org/dmcgraw/ati-debian.html
>
> 	I think you should use alien to convert to tgz, extract at top level
> '/', then go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod ...
>
> HTH,
> Mathieu
> Ps: avoid aving multiple libGL in different directory, it just doesn't
> make sense. Also if you used libGL.a at some point I'd suggest you
> remove all your binaries, 'make clean' if you are paranoid.