I eventually found out the method (hold ctrl while starting hugin) and then found the place that is documented for re enabling fast preview window (it brings up a dialog that lets you choose). But I didn't find any documentation of using that to avoid the crash on hugin statup that might require it.
IIUC, some graphics chipsets don't have correct enough EGL support for that fast preview window to work with newer (after 3.1.? I forget which exact version of wxWidgets) and will cause hugin to crash during startup if you are using that newer wxWidgets. My own very old graphics chipset (one that needs the 340 version of the closed source Nvidia driver) doesn't even allow building hugin from source when using wxWidgets 3.1.5 I kludged past that build problem, which I think gets me to the place the next version better (of still obsolete) Nvidia driver would be (but I can't be certain). Hugin then builds, but crashes on startup due to defective EGL support in the driver. That is unless you have set the right hidden setting to disable creation of the problem window. The easiest way to set that hidden setting is to hold ctrl down while starting hugin. (Simply never opening that window isn't enough. It crashes on creation during hugin startup). Maybe few other users are stuck (short of buying new hardware) with a driver with broken EGL support. Maybe some of those are able to stick with wxWidgets 3.0 (I likely could have, except for testing a feature I added). So maybe this was all just a problem for me. But in case it isn't, I think some description of the problem and solution (maybe more accurate than I just gave) should be somewhere more obvious. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/becf12e5-ec6f-4d76-9276-928fe3f18255n%40googlegroups.com.
