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Re: for comment: legacy canvas in V5 release

 

Since the recent updates to it, I have found the Cairo backend to be on
par with legacy. Have you tried using Cairo in a nightly build?

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:48:45AM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2017 10:25:03 Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> >
> > I never investigate, maybe a miss some flags activation on my drivers
> > but I experienced to use an old GPU (NVidia) card and everything goes back
> > perfect!
> >
> Yup, sadly it is a matter-of-fact that OpenGL seldom works out of the box on 
> Linux. One normally spends days to try or compile several different drivers 
> and settings until it is somewhat working with all installed software, 
> sometimes it is not possible to achieve.
> And after the next kernel or X.Org update it is broken again...
> 
> Martin
> 
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