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

[Darshan Pai]

doesnt look like it . I had to use software raycast on the ATI

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Wagner Sales <wsales at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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