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

[Karthik Krishnan]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Yes. The GPU volume mappers are in VTK  are now a part of VTK and will
not be an integral part of VTKEdge.

> The compatibility of GPU mappers on VTK are
> the same? ( works only with nVidia, windows or linux, not mac )

yes, its disabled on the 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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