Re: VTK + fglrx

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

Hi Matthew,

	If you are using debian the straightforward way to reproduce the 
problem is:

$ sudo apt-get install mayavi
$ mayavi

The opengl window should all be scrambled. Now try:

$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 mayavi

You should be able to use mayavi right away.

Otherwise the paraview tarball can be found at:
http://www.paraview.org/files/v2.0/paraview-2.0.0-x86-linux.tar.gz

After extracting simply do:
./bin/paraview

The problem can be seen right away when paraview is started (opengl 
window scrambled/ contained old buffer).

thanks,
Mathieu

Matthew Tippett wrote:

> Although I am not a paraview user could you point to some data files and 
> a quick howto that would allow us to really stress paraview?  To be 
> honest running lots of applications out of the box, without knowing the 
> software always makes for lot's of challenges...
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Malaterre <mmalater at nycap dot rr dot com>
> To: Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri dot apana dot org dot au>
> CC: flavio-fglrx at stanchina dot net <flavio-fglrx at stanchina dot net>
> Sent: Sat Apr 09 20:49:04 2005
> Subject: Re: [fglrx] VTK + fglrx
>
> 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