set opengl to software?

xiaweitang · Apprentice Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 152

Matlab in my system crashes when operating on figures. In this post http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/158572 it is suggested to run "opengl software" in the session running matlab. However, there is no program called "opengl". The program eselect has opengl as argument, but "eselect opengl set" doesn't accept "software" as its argument. Actually there is only one available option:

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

I believe that is the equivalent setting.

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

Start matlab with

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 matlab

ssteinberg · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 206 Location: Israel

Mesa llvm

Naib · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:37 pm Post subject:

very odd that you need to run matlab in software mode, esp since it uses ogl alot
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gerard27 · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject:

What video-card do you use?
Gerard.
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