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Awesome Donkey:
Honestly, you may have to wait until Ubuntu pushes a newer Mesa with *hopefully* a fix. I base that assumption on another user who uses Arch Linux (which ships with the latest versions of apps and dependencies like Mesa unlike Ubuntu which ships with a slightly older versions) and Mesa and doesn't have this issue. Maybe they'll fix it with whatever Mesa version they ship in 23.04, which I believe comes out next month in April.
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. You could try Linux Mint (but seeing as they're based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS it likely ships a newer Mesa) or Debian Bullseye and see if that works. But it's a bit of a shot in the dark either way and no guarantee whatsoever.
cochinada:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on March 01, 2023, 03:58:27 pm ---Honestly, you may have to wait until Ubuntu pushes a newer Mesa with *hopefully* a fix. I base that assumption on another user who uses Arch Linux (which ships with the latest versions of apps and dependencies like Mesa unlike Ubuntu which ships with a slightly older versions) and Mesa and doesn't have this issue. Maybe they'll fix it with whatever Mesa version they ship in 23.04, which I believe comes out next month in April.
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. You could try Linux Mint (but seeing as they're based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS it likely ships a newer Mesa) or Debian Bullseye and see if that works. But it's a bit of a shot in the dark either way and no guarantee whatsoever.
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What if I install this "Arch Linux"? If it is guaranteed it works I'll give it a try if it's also open source. I'm not very keen waiting until April or God knows when for a fix that may never come and in the meanwhile not being able to use MC.
Awesome Donkey:
Arch Linux is for advanced users, who can install without any sort of GUI using commands from the terminal, which I would not recommend. The alternatives are EndeavourOS or Manjaro, which are distros based on Arch Linux, but honestly Arch and its distros isn't for the faint of heart, at all, and is a completely different beast compared to Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Go for it if you want (or if you're masochistic, lol), and if you do good luck, you'd need it. :P
Debian is the one I'd try using first, as that's the only Linux OS that JRiver officially supports.
cochinada:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on March 01, 2023, 04:07:05 pm ---Arch Linux is for advanced users, who can install without any sort of GUI using commands from the terminal, which I would not recommend. The alternatives are EndeavourOS or Manjaro, which are distros based on Arch Linux, but honestly Arch and its distros isn't for the faint of heart, at all. Go for it if you want, and if you do good luck, you'd need it. :P
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I'm not an advanced user. Quite the opposite to be honest. Isn't anyone here, not advanced like me, who's using some kind of Linux and doesn't have this issue? Or is everyone having this same issue and are all waiting for a fix that may never come?
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: cochinada on March 01, 2023, 04:10:50 pm ---Isn't anyone here, not advanced like me, who's using some kind of Linux and doesn't have this issue? Or is everyone having this same issue and are all waiting for a fix that may never come?
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From what I've seen, at least two users (yourself included) has reported this issue. It seems to have worked previously, but stopped working after Ubuntu pushed system updates (e.g. Mesa). I just tried theater view in Media Center 30.0.67 on Fedora and it works fine there.
I'm going to guess this is going to come down to type of graphics is being used and perhaps the OS being used. In my case, I have a dedicated AMD GPU when using Fedora, whereas you (and possibly the other users) is using Intel integrated graphics (iGPU) on Ubuntu. If that's the case (and assuming theater view works for Nvidia GPU users) it'd be likely correct to assume a) the issue is Intel iGPU related and b) the issue lies with Mesa, which it did previously work until Ubuntu pushed Mesa updates that broke it and c) perhaps only happens with Ubuntu and its derivatives. This last one may be a shot in the dark though, if it doesn't work with the newest Mesa on a non-Ubuntu/non-Debian OS then maybe it's a) a bug in Mesa in relation to Intel iGPUs (and/or OpenGL) or b) Mesa removed support for something that Intel iGPUs (and theater view) requires.
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