[vtkusers] Compiling vtk on an nvidia card

[Evan Bollig]

Related to this, has anyone developed classes that take advantage of
the Nvidia 8800's CUDA architecture?  What classes should I refer to
first if I wanted to work on CUDA optimizations?

-Evan

On 6/27/07, Jonathan Bailleul <mailing at vectraproject.com> wrote:
> Luca Pamparana a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just installed an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card on my machine. However,
> > I do not see any performance increase in vtk on the linux system.
> > However, the windows version of my program runs so much faster! I am
> > wondering if it is the OpenGL libraries that I am linking to.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience regarding this? I installed the nvidia-glx
> > and the nvidia-dev packages but wonder which openGL libraries do I have
> > to link to.
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can give me.
> >
> > Luca
> >
> >
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> It is almost always mandatory to go to nvidia's website and download the
> latest drivers for linux. The installation will certainly require that
> kernel sources are present on your system (just install the package),
> but it will be completely automatic besides that, including xorg.conf
> modifications.
>
> Then, when you will run X (to log in), a Nvidia splash screen will
> appear, indicating that proprietary drivers are in use (is it the case
> already?). Most generic drivers are just very very lame and do not seem
> to be optimized at all.
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