Re: Python 3 crash when running on optimus card

Ákos Tóth <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:34:48 +0100
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Latest release appears to have fixed the issue. Thanks!


On 19 March 2014 06:14, Mike C. Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14-03-05 11:23 AM, Ákos Tóth wrote:
>
>> The Optimus driver is basically a secondary X server with the Nvidia
>> proprietary drivers loaded instead of Mesa (which houses anything the
>> integrated Intel card is capable of running), so I assume the issue might
>> be present when running with the Nvidia drivers regardless of Optimus.
>> Later this week I could do a test where I disable bumblebee altogether and
>> enable Nvidia on the primary X, thus getting around the whole Optimus deal,
>> and see if it still happens.
>>
>
> To attempt to work around this, I've moved all of PyOpenGL to using a
> pattern where entry points are resolved only when they are first used. If
> I'm right about what Optimus is doing, that *should* give us the right
> entry points, as they should be looked up in the context after Optimus has
> swapped them out for its own entry points.
>
> No way to tell without actually testing, though.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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