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OSMesa is used since Octave 4.0 for offscreen rendering from OpenGL toolkits FLTK and Qt.
This enables printing without a X display, for example when ssh'ing to a remote machine, or if the figure is invisible ({{bug|33180}}).


= libOSMesa =
= libOSMesa =
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Needed for example for Debian wheezy or Ubuntu 12.04.5 which ships OSMesa 8.0.5.
Needed for example for Debian wheezy or Ubuntu 12.04.5 which ships OSMesa 8.0.5.


   wget -nc ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/current/MesaLib-10.2.2.tar.bz2
   wget -nc ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/current/mesa-10.5.4.tar.xz
   tar xjf MesaLib-10.2.2.tar.bz2
   tar Jxf mesa-10.5.4.tar.xz
   cd Mesa-10.2.2/
   cd mesa-10.5.4/
    
    
   autoreconf -fi
   autoreconf -fi
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Floating point textures are disabled by default due to patent restrictions. We should check if we can enable it with "--enable-texture-float"
Floating point textures are disabled by default due to patent restrictions. We should check if we can enable it with "--enable-texture-float"
== known problems ==
Unfortunately, there are several known problems with using on-screen Mesa and OSMesa at the same time.
The --without-OSMesa configure can be used to disable OSMesa if a problem is encountered.
* {{bug|44478}} segmentation fault when using proprietary Nvidia drivers
* {{bug|44979}} clumsy/missing configure check, relies on runtime failure
* {{bug|44338}} doesn't work at all on Windows
* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424059 LP #1424059] libosmesa6 is not installable on Ubuntu 14.04 with HWE updates
* {{bug|50479}} doesn't work at all with libglvnd, now standard in most distributions
=== workarounds ===
* Preload the Mesa libGL.so, for example
  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
== Reporting Bugs ==
* Please include the output of
  glxinfo | grep "^OpenGL \(renderer\|core profile version\|vendor\)"
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