[vtkusers] [VtkEdge] VTKEdge and ATI Radeon Graphiics cards

[Wagner Sales]

Hi Francois,

I've seem the migration of VTKEdge to VTK trunk ( that's really nice! ).
Since the volume mapper don't work with ATI because the buggy drivers,
I think this volume mapper can have some issues on other acceleration
cards different than nvidia.
Are some list of supported and/or unsupported cards/models? If not,
may this is an idea to post this information in VTK  wiki.

Thanks in advance,

Wagner Sales

2010/1/28 Francois Bertel <francois.bertel at kitware.com>:
> I don't see why OpenCL will change anything. It still have to be
> implemented by the driver vendor.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/1/28 Francois Bertel <francois.bertel at kitware.com>:
>>> ATI is not supported for at least two reasons:
>>>
>>> 1. ATI does not provide decent drivers for Linux. I bought a ATI
>>> Radeon X1300 Pro, 256MB a while ago, it uses to be supported by a
>>> buggy ATI driver (it was just freezing my screen now and then). Later
>>> ATI drop support for Linux for this card, so by updating X11, the card
>>> was only supported by Mesa.
>>>
>>> 2. We tried another ATI on Windows and the only feedback from the
>>> driver was a compile error in a shader with an empty log (when the
>>> same shader code of course passed on nVidia, Windows or Linux).
>>> Imaging your C++ compiler just returning you "syntax error" without
>>> giving you any other information, like the reason and the line number,
>>> good luck with that.
>>
>> Uow! Really annoying things. May in the future with better standards
>> like OpenCL.
>> Thanks, I'll buy an NVidia based laptop.
>>
>> Wagner
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry my poor English. The volume mapper don't works with ATI cards
>>>> because a hardware issue or because ATI drivers?
>>>> Since don't work with ATI, I'll go ahead to buy a laptop with NVidia card.
>>>>
>>>> Wagner.
>>>>
>>>> 2010/1/28 Francois Bertel <francois.bertel at kitware.com>:
>>>>> I don't get what you are asking for. Can you formulate your question
>>>>> in proper English, please?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Francois,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then I can think are problems with ATI drivers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wagner
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2010/1/27 Francois Bertel <francois.bertel at kitware.com>:
>>>>>>> There is no performance issue as the GPU volume mapper and the LIC
>>>>>>> algortihms just don't work with ATI cards.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ref: http://vtkedge.org/Wiki/VTKEdge:FAQ#Run_time
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm going to buy a new laptop ( my old Dell are at knees :) ). And I'm
>>>>>>>> thinking in acquire one which haves modern ATI Radeon Graphics card.
>>>>>>>> Well, since I ever used VTKEdge with nVidia cards, I really don't know
>>>>>>>> about performance issues. Are someone using ATI Radeon or better,
>>>>>>>> tested VTKEdge in both to tell about performance or other issues?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wagner Sales
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