Hi!
I am using MATLAB R2021b. Linux Mint 20.2, 5.13.0-21-generic kernel, 11th gen i7-1165G7 CPU.
Software OpenGL failing seems to be a common problem with MATLAB on Linux. I get the following error:
MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
MESA-LOADER: failed to open iris: /usr/lib/dri/iris_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: iris
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
I have tried solution posted here. It worked for me before, but on my new laptop, forcing i965 spits out more errors: MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
gen12 and newer are not supported on i965
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
It seems like the previous solution was forcing an older driver (could be totaly wrong here). It seems like this trick does not work with newer CPUs with Intel Xe graphics. Any ideas what to do about this?