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

[Wagner Sales]

The mail was pretty bounced from Francois :).

Karthik, and in ATI Radeon, any news in any platform?

Best Regards,

Wagner Sales

2010/10/26 Karthik Krishnan <karthik.krishnan at kitware.com>:
> 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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