Lower GL/GLES version required for some ARM64 devices

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Lower GL/GLES version required for some ARM64 devices #1101

Open hrdl-github opened 3 months ago

hrdl-github commented 3 months ago

Running the development version of sioyek on the Pine64 PineNote (RK3566, MALI G52 2EE) results in a black rendering area. I've been working around this by setting the OpenGL version to 2.1 (instead of 3.3) and using 3.0 es instead of 3.3 core for the shaders: https://gitlab.com/hrdl/pinenote-shared/-/raw/main/patches/sioyek/gl_gles_version.patch

Do you have any suggestions on how to increase compatibility? Mentioning @hmpthcs because they brought this up again earlier this week.

ahrm commented 3 months ago

OpenGL version to 2.1 (instead of 3.3) and using 3.0 es instead of 3.3 core for the shaders

I don't think this is correct. Opengl 2.1 does not support 3.3 shaders so I think the fact that it is working is maybe an undocumented accident in your graphics driver. In the future we will support a non-opengl rendering backend which should work on such devices.