Oh, I think that might be the same problem we ran into here with glxgears on
Ubuntu not running.  We just had to uninstall the dri package for OpenGL and
then it would always use software automatically.  Can someone verify if that
fixes Matlab as well?

William Yang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jens Langner
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] [SRSS 4.2] Xnewt segfault at
> 00000000000166e0 ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Am 16.04.10 12:59, schrieb Tom Crummey:
> 
> > The workaround is to get matlab to use software opengl. We added the
> > following to the matlab startup script at line 497 (version 2009b):
> >
> >>
> >> #####################################################
> >> # Fix for SunRay issue running 3D Graphics via OpenGL
> >> # Make sure that matlab uses software OpenGL
> >> # 07/12/09, Lee Heagney
> >> #####################################################
> >>  ##################################################
> >>  # If $UTAUDIODEV is not set, then set it to "NONE"
> >>  ##################################################
> >>  : ${UTAUDIODEV:="NONE"}
> >>  if [ $UTAUDIODEV != "NONE" ]; then
> >>    #################################################
> >>    # The host is a SunRay, so enable software openGL
> >>    #################################################
> >>    usemesalinux=1
> >>  fi
> >> ############
> >> # End of Fix
> >> ############
> >
> > This forces matlab to link in its own MESA library.
> 
> Oh great, I didn't know that there is actually a work around for the
> problem. So I just tried it here and here it even works when I startup
> matlab with the option "-softwareopengl". However, hopefully Sun/Oracle
> is going to fix that problem in one of the next updates/patches so that
> we can get rid of that option.
> 
> regards,
> jens
> --
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