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Hello! I have a very old PC with intel i915 graphics, which doesn't correctly display KDE and shows a lot of bugs. I know it is possible to switch to software acceleration in X server. On NVdia I can pass nouveau.noaccel=1 to kernel. So how can I disable hardware acceleration here? Maybe this is possible via Xorg config?

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[–] Static_Rocket 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Llvmpipe is enabled in mesa at compilation time and actually modifies the swrast_*.so the last time I checked. Not runtime configurable. Also, I know at one point it had issues running on 32 bit machines. Not sure if that's still the case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here. Option GLX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] user_naa 1 points 1 month ago

I think this is for applications not for graphical server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

idk, but i would try switching of DRM/DRI (Direct Rendering Manager/Direct Rendering Interface). it's X hardware rendering.