Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Fabio Rossi via Cygwin
Hello Brian, thanks for your suggestions, eventually I solved the problem with Achim's hint of using opengl software rendering because the graphics card is not supporting all opengl requirements. I have followed this guide: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-glx.html Fabio > Il 27/04/2023 1

Re: Problems with asciidoctor gem after ruby update

2023-04-27 Thread Daisuke Fujimura via Cygwin
I apologize for any inconvenience caused. Please wait a moment while I investigate. On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:13 PM Daniel Abrahamsson via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi, > > I’m not sure if the issue is cygwin-specific or not, but I do not have a > linux box with a sufficiently new version of ruby to tes

Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin
Fabio Rossi via Cygwin writes: > I forgot to mention that the test machine is running Windows 10 Pro 64 > bit with a ATI FirePro 3800 graphics card. That particular family of graphics chips has drivers that do not implement (or incorrectly) certain functions that the level of OpenGL support would

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygport 0.36.3-1

2023-04-27 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygport-0.36.3-1 cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages for the Cygwin distribution. Daisuke Fujimura (1): pkg_info: add automatic determination of the appropriate ruby_xy0 requirement

Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
Hi Fabio, Are you running from a bash shell under a terminal started from the XWin Server shortcut or X Applications Menu? Those variables are defined in my shell: $ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP $XDG_MENU_PREFIX $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR X-Cygwin xwin- /run/user/##/ -- Take care. Tha

Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Fabio Rossi via Cygwin
Hello Brians, thanks for the suggestions. I had already installed the xorg server and all the packages you mentioned. But nevertheless I get the errors reported in the original email, both if I start octave from the shell or by using the XDG menu which starts octave with the GUI. In particular,

Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
Hi Fabio, Some packages include non-GUI or native GUI interfaces that do not require window system support. Others may dynamically support window systems if they are installed, or have separate executables for console or GUI, as octave does: octave and octave-cli. If you are using octave GU

Re: problems with octave 8.2.0-1 and plotting

2023-04-27 Thread Fabio Rossi via Cygwin
I forgot to mention that the test machine is running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with a ATI FirePro 3800 graphics card. On the same machine, octave built for Windows executes correctly the same command. I have observed the same behaviour also on other Windows machines running Win7 or other graphic ada

Problems with asciidoctor gem after ruby update

2023-04-27 Thread Daniel Abrahamsson via Cygwin
Hi, I’m not sure if the issue is cygwin-specific or not, but I do not have a linux box with a sufficiently new version of ruby to test with. The errors started showing up after the recent updates of the ruby and rubygems packages. When installing asciidoctor via `gem install asciidoctor`, a asc