Package: libgl1-mesa-dri
Version: 22.3.6-1+deb12u1
Severity: important
I think the Gallium driver for older Intel graphics is a bit
undercooked, and should not be considered a silver bullet (stable)
yet. I've been experiencing issues with WineD3D, like flickering, bad
performance and application crashing that I didn't have before. Wine
Nine did not help my situation.
When I've curiously tried these drivers on another distro before (this
was year or two ago, when this driver was experimental), I was able to
use MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965, to fall back to the legacy
driver. However this isn't possible on Debian:
> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open i965: /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
> libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
I've tried 'apt-file search i965_dri.so', but it gave me no result. I
think this driver should be shipped with Debian, and perhaps (?) even
be preferred over Gallium for Gen 5 and probably Gen 4. The Gallium
driver just didn't have the years upon years of fixings that the i965
driver had.
I suspect i965 is part of mesa-amber now.
