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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> VtkEdge mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vtkedge >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> François Bertel, PhD | Kitware Inc. Suite 204 >>>>>> 1 (518) 371 3971 x113 | 28 Corporate Drive >>>>>> | Clifton Park NY 12065, USA >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> VtkEdge mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vtkedge >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> François Bertel, PhD | Kitware Inc. Suite 204 >>>> 1 (518) 371 3971 x113 | 28 Corporate Drive >>>> | Clifton Park NY 12065, USA >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> VtkEdge mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vtkedge >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> François Bertel, PhD | Kitware Inc. Suite 204 >> 1 (518) 371 3971 x113 | 28 Corporate Drive >> | Clifton Park NY 12065, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> VtkEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vtkedge >> > -- François Bertel, PhD | Kitware Inc. Suite 204 1 (518) 371 3971 x113 | 28 Corporate Drive | Clifton Park NY 12065, USA _______________________________________________ VtkEdge mailing list [email protected] http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vtkedge
