Re: ATI Driver vs. LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

[Mathieu Malaterre <mmalater at nycap dot rr dot com>]

I forgot to mention. One easy way to reproduce is with mayavi:

apt-get install mayavi

(you can later remove the installed package).

Thanks,
Mathieu

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Hello again,
>
>     Since I've so valuable help, I'll try the question that has been 
> boging me for a while. I am working on an application called ParaView 
> that make use of VTK (lib on top of OpenGL). For some reason paraview 
> works on a variety of plateform (Win32, MacOSX, Unix, linux). But I 
> cannot get it to work on my linux debian + ATI driver, see screenshot:
>
> http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~malaterre/paraview/ParaView-fglrx.png
>
>     But if I start paraview with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 I can get it to 
> work:
>
> http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~malaterre/paraview/ParaView-mesa.png
>
>     The only problem is that it is much slower.
>
> Has anyone seen this before ? Or know a way to track it down ?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Mathieu
> Ps: I don't get anything is /var/log/messages or XFree86.log ...