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How to switch Xorg to llvmpipe (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by user_naa@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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@lemmy.world 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.