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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Thanks Mitchell I was just trying to help you as I had gone through the same problems, that's all. Anyway I did setup a wiki page:

http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_OpenGL

That should help other people setup their opengl driver, but as you mention, if nvidia worked out of the box, ATI should *seriously* rethink the quality of their linux driver.

You mentioned an open source dicom workstation, where are you going to get the dicom lib ?

Anyway enjoy,
Mathieu


> 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.
>