> On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i've made a PR for this at: > https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/pull/745 > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Pull request long description: > > we have a bit of a problem with the map widget...it's QtQuick based > and QtQuick2 needs OpenGL 2.1 on Desktop. it seems that some users are > using prehistoric hardware or simply do not have good GPU drivers > installed. without drivers installed Windows only has OpenGL 1.1. > > But this is a potential problem on all desktop platforms and we need > to fall back to a software renderer. > To my understanding Marble did the same. > > Changes made: > > notify the users in README that the desktop version needs OpenGL 2.1 at least. > attempt to automatically detect older OpenGL and fallback to a > software renderer. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > please test.
Since I worry about people's ability to test this if it isn't in master (and it seems self defeating to make it harder to test) I merged this. It's now in master, new test binaries are in production and should hit the usual places in the near future. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
