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

[Wagner Sales]

Hi Francois,

Sorry by raise this question up newly, but GPU volume mappers are
migrated to VTK since version 5.6 and aren't developed with VTKEdge
(this is my assumption). The compatibility of GPU mappers on VTK are
the same? ( works only with nVidia, windows or linux, not mac )

Best Regards,
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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>>>>>
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