2010/1/28 Francois Bertel <[email protected]>:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>:
>>> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Francois,
>>>>
>>>> Then I can think are problems with ATI drivers?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Wagner
>>>>
>>>> 2010/1/27 Francois Bertel <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 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 <[email protected]> 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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