In the past, when running eeschema or pcbnew for the first time, it would ask
if I wanted to try accelerated graphics. That no longer seems to be the case -
I don't get that dialog.
I don't know if the dialog was intentionally removed or if it is a bug, but I
think it is an issue either way, because the default is now accelerated
graphics, which results in segfaults on some machines that I have here.
Today I was trying some experiments in a new VM, and I couldn't launch
eeschema, either from the main app or standalone. It would segfault before
putting up its window. Then I remembered that I had had that problem in the
past when I was trying out accelerated graphics. But in the past, I was able
to select fallback graphics from that initial dialog.
In this case, my only way to fix the situation was to copy the json config
files from another machine that was already configured for fallback graphics.
That worked. KiCad was now usable in the VM.
Most people won't have a set of suitable json files laying around to get past
the segfault, or even know to try that. Thus, I think the initial dialog needs
to be there, or perhaps the default should be changed to fallback graphics.
Steve
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