[vtkusers] VTK 5.2 and 5.4 bug

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi Francois,

  Could you please update the FAQ and remove the old entry in the FAQ
so as not to confuse new users ?

Thanks,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Francois Bertel
<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As mangle Mesa was pretty broken and there were other alternatives to
> perform offscreen rendering, it was decided a long time ago to stop
> maintaining  the vtkMesa* classes.
>
> The other alternatives for offscreen rendering are:
> * if you have mesa compiled with offscreen and you set
> VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA to ON during the VTK build and you set
> OffScreenRendering ivar to on on the vtkWindow
> (superclass of vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow), it will use it first.
> * if not, if you graphics card support framebuffer object (FBO), it will use it
> * if not, if supported, if will use pbuffers (pixel buffers) (note:
> this has nothing to do with pixel buffer objects (PBO) )
> * if not, it will use pixmaps.
>
> On the VTK dashboard,
> * arkadia.kitware covers offscreen with FBO
> * hythloth.kitware covers Mesa
> * dash16.kitware covers Mesa with VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA:BOOL=ON
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Rolf Anders Syvertsen
> <Rolf.Anders.Syvertsen at rikshospitalet.no> wrote:
>> The code will not compile with Mesa enabled. The Rendering/vtkMesa*.* files
>> are old.  Where are the correct files? Has the Mesa part been forgotten? Is
>> there an other way to run offscreen rendering on linux in the new versions?
>> Did not work on linux on 5.2 by default with out mesa.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rolf Anders Syvertsen
>> Software Developer
>> IMI (Institute for Medical Informatics)
>> Radiumhospitalet, Oslo Universitetssykehus HF
>> email: rolf.anders.syvertsen at rikshospitalet.no
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Mathieu