Black 3D GUI on Linux Mint x64

[flyte]

When I start the software (using sudo or otherwise), I can see the 2D GUI but the 3D window is just black. Sometimes it contains garbled up text from my terminal window. I guess this is an issue with OpenGL, but 'glxgears' runs fine.

Anyone heard of this happening before?

[CompoundCarl]

its probably a driver issue

[flyte]

Would you care to elaborate? I can run all other OpenGL programs fine, so I don't know why this would be any different?

[CompoundCarl]

Every time I have seen something like that on my Linux computers, it was related to the drivers. So that would definitely be my guess.

And all OpenGL is not the same. There are many different versions and features that the graphics driver needs to support. You could easily have one program that uses one type of OpenGL that work, and another that doesn't because it uses different versions or features.

So again, my bet would be on the driver

[flyte]

I had a look through the Intel drivers available for Linux Mint 17.2 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) but it turns out I'm running the latest available.

Since there is no other driver I'm able to use, is there something else I can try? Perhaps some logging output somewhere that can help identify where it's failing? It's really inconvenient to reboot into Windows every time I want to slice something when the entirety of the rest of my workflow is in Linux.

Thanks

[wirlybird]

I would suggest seeing if you can change render/acceleration settings from hardware to software or vise-versa. I have some things where the graphics card can't handle the 3D or likewise the software can't. Long shot!!

I have one program that requires hardware acceleration for 3D and if changed to software it fails.

[sipo75]

I had a look through the Intel drivers available for Linux Mint 17.2 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) but it turns out I'm running the latest available.

Since there is no other driver I'm able to use, is there something else I can try? Perhaps some logging output somewhere that can help identify where it's failing? It's really inconvenient to reboot into Windows every time I want to slice something when the entirety of the rest of my workflow is in Linux.

Thanks

Did you ever solve your issue?

I have the same behaviour on Windows 10 with an Nvidia GTX 980 Ti.