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- From: Petar Petrov <pip010@gmail.com>
- To: Ayla Khan <ayla@sci.utah.edu>
- Cc: butsonc <butsonc@gmail.com>, "scirun-users@sci.utah.edu" <scirun-users@sci.utah.edu>
- Subject: [SCIRUN-USERS] Re: Re: Strange video behavior on Mac Pro running SCIRun 4.6
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:15:45 +0200
I've run SCIrun exclusively with HD3300 ATI on Linux. Not a single
time I had such issues. It might be platform-driver specific.
So don't be so quick to blame it on ATI ;) ATI is better than NVIDIA
in many respects, drivers not one of them :P
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Ayla Khan <ayla@sci.utah.edu> wrote:
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Hi Chris,
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This is a known problem with AMD/ATI cards. There is a warning on the SCIRun
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site under the Specifications and Mac OS X tabs, and now in the FAQ. We're
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not seeing this problem with NVIDIA cards. We're testing the latest OS
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updates and XQuartz releases, but don't currently have a solution for SCIRun
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4.
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Ayla
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On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:06 PM, butsonc wrote:
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I just installed SCIRun 4.6 on a new Mac Pro running OSX 10.8.4. This system
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has two monitors, one connected through the DVI port and one connected
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through a Mini-DVI to DVI adapter. The video card is a ATI Radeon HD 5770.
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As soon as I start SCIRun and open a render window (ViewScene) I see a white
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screen flicker on one screen and the other screen becomes scrambled (see
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below). It appears that only a reboot can get things back to normal once
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this happens. Has anyone else observed this behavior or have ideas about how
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to solve it?
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Thanks,
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Chris
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All the best,
Petar Petrov
http://ppetrov.net
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