Re: the nvidia/osmesa dilema

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 05/04/2016 05:36 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> hi all,
>
> We still have this issue with building the documentation and running
> tests (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44478) that casues segfaults
> when the user is running with nvidia drivers.
>
> The documentation issue, I assume, comes form the attempt of printing
> images to files without rendering on the screen. Would it be possible
> to give a flag on the make file to disable off-screen printing? Of
> course, if possible i would try to do it and submit the patch.

How about rather than just disable off-screen printing with a flag, make 
it a reconfigurability flag, e.g., --with-gnuplot-offscreen.  Or 
something that will make Octave use a different graphics toolkit.  I 
tried a couple nights ago to place an .octaverc file that changes the 
graphics toolkit in the various build directories where octave-run is 
launched...didn't work.

That, or fix the issue with nVidia off-screen printing.

Dan