[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] dri: don't load .drirc from $HOME

[Michel Dänzer]

On 09/01/17 03:13 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 07/01/17 11:46 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>
>> ~/.drirc is created by the driconf tool (GPL license) and it overrides
>> system drirc settings and can't be changed by Mesa updates.
>> This drops support for the tool. It has been a source of major pain
>> for us and it continues to cause problems.
>>
>> If people wanna keep this and enjoy the pain, I will make a v2 that
>> applies it to radeon drivers only.
>>
>> v2: update comments and docs
> 
> The problem is the driconf application (and possibly documentation
> recommending its use), not the ~/.drirc file. This is throwing out the
> proverbial baby with the bathwater. Fix the problem instead.

As for something that could be done about this issue in Mesa, how about
adding terminal output about which driconf options are set to what
values from where, enabled e.g. via LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose ?


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