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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2016-11-27 5:13 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Folks,
>
>  There have been a small number of reports of rendering problems since around
> March this year but with apparently no progress.  I thought I'd let people know
> of the bug report which had been filed so that devs with more experience with
> the rendering might have a look and see if they happen to instantly recognize
> what's going on:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1556368
>
> The most common complaint seems to be "I upgraded some Debian-based
> distro and now the rendering in eeschema and pcbnew-legacy has problems
> which make it unusable, but pcbnew-opengl works." A few people also mention
> that their machine has some Intel chipset but there are too few reports to see
> if the chipset actually has anything to do with the problem. There are too few
> reports and too little information at the moment, but I'm hoping someone might
> have seen this problem before and know what might be happening.
>
> It is not clear if the reports have some relation to the bug which was
> discussed here and which has a workaround:
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg17048.html
>
> Some of the reports suggest that the 2 bugs may not be quite the same
> even if the results are similar since the known bug affects wxGTK3 + GTK3
> while one report on the more recent bug suggest that wxGTK3 + GTK2 is
> also affected.

If that is #8 from 1556368, then it is still likely that he did not
actually build against the wxgtk3 with gtk2 combination.

>
> - Cirilo
>
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