RE: Octave 4.0.0 freezes during start on win7

[Ortlepp Ingo TU Ilmenau]

> From: inor0627 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/6/10, Wed 15:26
> Subject: Re: Octave 4.0.0 freezes during start on win7
> 
> inor0627 wrote
>>  Hello Tatsuro, Hello rocketsound
>> 
>>  I tried the following: 
>>  1 - redownloading and unzipping to c:\octave
>>  2 - running 'cscript.exe octave.vbs' from terminal --> nothing 
> (visible)
>>  happens at all
>>  3 - running 'octave.bat' --> freezes as described
>>  4 - running 'octave.bat' in windows fail safe mode --> it works!
>> 
>>  So obviously some windows service is obstructing octave in normal mode.
>>  Any idea which one might be the culprit?
>> 
>>  Regards,
>>  Ingo
> 
> Additional information: When running octave 3.8.2 and calling any plot
> command, windows is falling back to some basic graphics mode (non-aero
> design). So could it be a graphics issue?
> 
> Ingo
> 



>> So could it be a graphics issue?

> It could be.

> From cmd shell, try
>  cd <your octave binaries located>
>  octave --no-gui-libs

> This disables qt related things. 
> Octave starts up in cli mode and qt graphics_toolkit is not available.

> If you can start up octave in the above, perhaps your OpenGL graphics might 
> have problems.

> Tatsuro 

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. I also did an driver-update for my 
graphics card, but the behavior stays the same as before.

Ingo