On Monday, January 9, 2017 11:58:45 AM PST Marek Olšák wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote: > > On 09/01/17 03:13 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> On 07/01/17 11:46 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: > >>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.ol...@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 ? > > That would have no effect on anything whatsoever. The idea is to drop > support for driconf. That can be done by not loading ~/.drirc and > either: > - not loading anything, or > - load a different file from HOME instead (e.g. ~/.mesarc) > > driconf uses GPL, which is not compatible with X.Org and Mesa. > > Marek
If we move it, we should use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/drirc (~/.config/drirc). --Ken
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