[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] [dashboard maintainers]To make TestGPUInfo works properly

[Dave Partyka]

Direct X SDK is now installed on Amber10.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Francois Bertel <
francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:

> To dashboard maintainers,
>
> in order to make TestGPUInfo work properly and return something like:
>
> "
> There is 1 GPU(s).
>  GPU 0:
>   dedicated VRAM=512 MB
>   dedicated RAM=0 MB
>   shared RAM=0 MB
> "
>
> instead of
>
> "There is 0 GPU(s)."
>
>
>
> 1. With a Windows machine, you need to install the DirectX SDK.
>
> It have been tested on VTKEdge with the DirectX SDK from August 2008:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea4894b5-e98d-44f6-842d-e32147237638&DisplayLang=en
>
> And you can find the latest Direct X SDK from February 2010 here:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c7da5fb-ffbb-4af6-8c66-651cbd28ca15
>
>
> 2. With a Linux machine with an nVidia card, with an nVidia
> proprietary driver, you need to install the NVCtrl library (It gives
> access to the NV-CONTROL X extension) and set  VTK_USE_NVCONTROL to ON
> in your dashboard script:
>
>  * If it is already installed on your system, you can find the library
> libXNVCtrl.a in /usr/lib/ and the header files NVCtrlLib.h and
> NVCtrl.h in /usr/include/NVCtrl/. On Ubuntu, those files are provided
> by the package "nvidia-settings".
>  * You can also get them from the source package of nvidia-settings
> from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/. With the
> source package, all the relevant files are in src/libXNVCtrl/. Make
> sure to download a version of nvidia-settings equal or greater to
> 177.82 to avoid any license issue. (on August 25 2008, nVidia
> acknowledged that there is a mistake in the license of the NVCtrl
> library prior to 177.82, it should be MIT-X11 / BSD instead of GPL,
> only the nvidia-settings application is covered by the GPL, not the
> NVCtrl library:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1756087&postcount=8 )
>
> 3. There is nothing special to change on Macs.
>
> What I just wrote is pretty much what it is the VTKEdge FAQ as the
> GPUInfo feature was moved from VTKEdge to VTK:
> http://vtkedge.org/Wiki/VTKEdge:FAQ#Compile_time
>
>
>
>
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