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Todaug

Running in software rendering mode

Post by Todaug »

I logged in to my Mint machine and got this message on the top right of my screen
Running in software rendering mode
Cinnamon is currently running without video hardware acceleration and, as a result, you may observe much higher than normal CPU usage.
There could be a problem with your drivers or some other issue. For the best experience, it is recommended that you only use this mode for troubleshooting purposes.
I'm using an nvidia 1060 and I tried to reinstall the drivers and also tried to come back using nouveau driver but I keep getting this message. (Right now all nvidia drivers are uninstalled)

If I search on Google about this problem, all I found is problem concerning virtual box running mint on it, but i'm not on a virtual machine.

What can I do next ?

here is the output of inxi -Fxz

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System:    Host: dave-MS-7A71 Kernel: 4.11.0-14-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
Machine:   Mobo: MSI model: Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v: 1.0
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 1.10 date: 02/03/2017
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-7600K (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 30336
           clock speeds: max: 4200 MHz 1: 799 MHz 2: 799 MHz 3: 799 MHz
           4: 799 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA Device 1c03 bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Device a2f0 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
           Card-2 NVIDIA Device 10f1 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-3 Kingston driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 001-002
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.11.0-14-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: wl bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 5251.0GB (17.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_840 size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD20EARS size: 2000.4GB
           ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: My_Book_1170 size: 3000.6GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 213G used: 189G (94%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 224 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 1924.5/16012.4MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
FAILED: nouveau
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mkeidel

Re: Running in software rendering mode

Post by mkeidel »

I am also receiving this error and my screen is drawing VERY slowly.

New install with a z370 core i7 and I had a GeForce 9500GT card in it but removed it, installed the newest version of Mint 18.2 and at least the i915 failure to load driver message is gone but it is essentially unusable with the screen speed.

I added the i915.alpha_support=1 GRUB parameter and it sill no change... have you solved your problem?
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