[vtkusers] Please help me by answering the simple question

Anka Kochanowska anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Mon Jan 15 12:47:27 EST 2007


I have it working on Fedora Core 4. I just installed Fedora, downloaded 
and installed CMake, OpenGL (from www.mesa3d.org) and vtk and everything 
worked smoothly.  I already sent you my CMake.
Anka

Sawsan Ahmed wrote:

> Hello Friends,
>                      I have used Fedora Core 5,Now trying with Red Hat 
> 9.Thanks all of you for your kind cooperation,assistance and guidance.
>  
> Sawsan
>
> */"Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood at imperial.ac.uk>/* wrote:
>
>
>     I don't see where you mentioned which distribution you are actually
>     using?
>
>     You might also try a different Linux distribution, and/or try a
>     different application. Of course this is gettign away from
>     vtk-specifics! But maybe it is the distro's graphi setup that's the
>     problem.
>
>
>
>     Try for example a pure:dyne live cd and see if the pure-data library
>     'gem' can display a gl teapot example properly ? (example basic 09
>     comes
>     with gem) http://puredyne.goto10.org/wiki/GetPureDyne
>
>
>
>
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: vtkusers-bounces+r.atwood=imperial.ac.uk at vtk.org
>     > [mailto:vtkusers-bounces+r.atwood=imperial.ac.uk at vtk.org] On
>     > Behalf Of Obada Mahdi
>     > Sent: 11 January 2007 15:59
>     > To: Sawsan Ahmed
>     > Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
>     > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Please help me by answering the
>     > simple question
>     >
>     > Hi Sawsan!
>     >
>     > On 1/11/07, Sawsan Ahmed wrote:
>     > > I tried with libGLU.so and installing graphviz ( for
>     > dot tool),still
>     > > same output -- no cone,only the colored background.
>     >
>     > "dot" is not required for normal VTK use. The dependency stems from
>     > setting "BUILD_DOCUMENTATION" to "ON", it is used for generating
>     > inheritance and collaboration diagrams for the doxygen
>     documentation,
>     > so it does not interfere in any way with how VTK works.
>     >
>     > > I also don't have gnuplot in my linux.I don't know whether any
>     > > problem with my linux installation.I am trying to install
>     > again linux in
>     > > server mode.In the mean time,if anyone get any answer ,it
>     > will be greatly
>     > > appreciated.
>     >
>     > Unfortunately, I do not know what is causing your problems. It
>     sounds
>     > like there could be a problem with your OpenGL installation. In most
>     > GNU/Linux distributions, OpenGL libraries are installed along
>     with the
>     > graphics card drivers, which is either a part of the X11
>     installation
>     > (using hardware-accelerated Mesa drivers) or through separate driver
>     > packages (like those provided by ATI and nVidia). Reinstalling these
>     > drivers might help; like others have pointed out, there should be a
>     > symlink called "libGLU.so".
>     >
>     > If a reinstallation does not work, you could try to track
>     > down the problem by
>     > - using "ldd" on executables to make sure that the correct OpenGL
>     > libraries are used by the dynamic linker
>     > - examine the results of "glxinfo" [1]
>     > - running other OpenGL applications (glxgears [1], games,
>     screensaver
>     > using GL...), to check whether OpenGL works in general
>     >
>     >
>     > HTH,
>     >
>     > Obada
>     >
>     > ----
>     > [1] both "glxinfo" and "glxgears" should be installed along with X11
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