Re: VTK + fglrx

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

Donovan Baarda wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:32 -0400, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> > Just for history, here are the ways I found to use VTK and fglrx.
> >
> > 1. Comment the line "Load dri" or turn the no_dri to true:
> >
> > [fglrx config]
> > Option "no_dri" "yes"
> >
> > 2. Using clone mode apparently remove dri
>
>
> Doesn't turning off DRI turn off 3D acceleration?
>
>
> > 3. export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 before starting the app.
>
>
> And from what I've read, indirect mode also turns off 3D acceleration.
> There has been some discussion on the XOrg lists about indirect 3D
> acceleration, but it isn't implemented yet.


Well my whole point was to get VTK/ParaView to work on ATI. Unless you 
trick the compilation to use Mesa and play with LD_PRELOAD, the 
solutions I proposed were only to help simple user that want both VTK 
and 3D acceleration in, let say, glxgears...

Mathieu