[Mesa-users] How to completely disable 3D hardware acceleration

[Ruslan Kabatsayev]

On 23 June 2017 at 17:10, R. Diez <rdiezmail-mesa at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> You could rm or mv the actual driver file.  Look in
>
>
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/ (or i386-linux-gnu/dri/) for r600_dri.so
>> (for example) and rm/mv the file.
>>
>> You can use LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose to see exactly which
>> driver file is being loaded with glxinfo.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I am disappointed that there is no cleaner way to disable the driver. If I
> move or delete a system file like that, I fear that the next system update
> could restore it without warning.
If you want a warning (well, error) on update, you can create an empty
file in place of the driver and make it immutable (chattr +i).
>
> Regards,
>   rdiez
>
>
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