Black screen on RenderDragon versions with Mesa 23.1.0

[Encritary]

Today I had updated Mesa drivers from Kisak PPA (Ubuntu 22.04) from version 23.0.3~kisak1~j to 23.1.0~kisak1~j
After that, the RenderDragon versions (1.18.30+) showed only a black screen. The only problem were the graphics, the game itself responded to clicks, etc. Older versions (1.18.12 or older) worked as intended.
Downgrading from Kisak version to a default Ubuntu repository one (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1) has worked as a temporary fix for the problem of a black screen.

[ChristopherHX]

I have absolutly no idea what mesa has changed. Running 1.18.30 with a blackscreen was always easy for me, but getting rid of the blackscreen of death was hard even before this mesa update.

MESA_DEBUG=1 shows the exact same errors, while the old mesa is still working.

I can think of using minecraft-linux/angle also on linux to not directly use mesa, but this can have a performance impact.

[ChristopherHX]

I created a mod for this launcher to temporary hide this issue

Download the mod from the artifacts of https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-updates/actions/runs/5070803283 (the attached git repository contains the source code)

Adding mods

The Open Data Root folder can also be found on the following locations

~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/
~/.var/app/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher/data/mcpelauncher/
~/Library/Application Support/mcpelauncher/

create a folder with name mods and put the .so file for your system into this folder.

As reported in our discord server defining the env variable MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE="-GL_EXT_instanced_arrays" is another workaround.

[HurricanePootis]

I can confirm the MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE works

[ChristopherHX]

Fixed via 830459e#diff-09fb3101c5e59fb47d56bd5b39c0ad0306c1fd9c383debc81e8cb3043e6b503aR172-R176

The conclusion is disable the new feature of mesa 23.1