It tries to load the software rasterizer. This is weird. Try this dri_driver=iris strace -f -e trace=file glxinfo -B 2>&1|grep _dri Should look like this. ATTENTION: default value of option dri_driver overridden by environment. openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/dri/tls/iris_dri.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/dri/iris_dri.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 ATTENTION: default value of option dri_driver overridden by environment. Try also with "i965" and "crocus" as drivers instead of "iris".