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dapilori

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Registered: 2016-05-13

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Mesa 11.2.2 breaks MATLAB graphics

The recent update to mesa and mesa-libgl from 11.2.1-1 to 11.2.2-1 breaks MATLAB R2016a graphics.

After the update, MATLAB shows the warning "MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.", strongly degrading its graphical capabilities.
Forcing MATLAB to use hardware OpenGL rendering does not fix the problem.

Downgrading mesa and mesa-libgl fixes the problem. For the moment, I did not find any workaround with the new mesa version.

Does anybody experience the same problem?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Mesa 11.2.2 breaks MATLAB graphics

Are you using intel driver like in this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212566 ?

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dapilori

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Registered: 2016-05-13

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Re: Mesa 11.2.2 breaks MATLAB graphics

Yes, I am.

I did not experience any graphics-related issue other than MATLAB's, but I did not test thoroughly the graphics system before downgrading mesa.

vanja_z

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Registered: 2012-04-11

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Re: Mesa 11.2.2 breaks MATLAB graphics

Hi dapolori, just in case you miss my other thread I think you might be able to work around this problem by forcing the use of the Arch C library for exmaple by running,

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 matlab

dapilori

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Re: Mesa 11.2.2 breaks MATLAB graphics

It works! Thank you for your suggestion.

Last edited by dapilori (2016-05-18 12:00:50)