Linux Mint 17.2: Cinnamon Running in Software Rendering Mode

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I have Linux Mint 17.2 installed on my desktop and every time I log in, I get a popup at the top right saying cinnamon is running in software rendering mode. b/c hardware acceleration is not enabled. However, when I check glxinfo, it says direct rendering: yes. What could be causing this problem and how can I fix it? Btw, when I log in, I make sure that I am selecting Cinnamon and not Cinnamon software rendering mode at the login screen. Using xorg 1:7.3.0-1 drivers with xfx 290x gpu.

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You could try a sudo apt-get update

Then:

Sudo apt-get upgrade

Also you can google, your way to some answers on updating xorg,mesa, etc.

If that does not fix it. Did you try the proprietary drivers?

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[citation]sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade[/citation]

... why type a CLI command twice when you can type it once?

Also for OP ... probably this. Though there's been other posts about it, but even then... they are all on google.

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Cause i prefer doing Terminal Commands that way?

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fair enough && touche

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Thanks for all the responses, the fglrx drivers did not really solve the problem. After selecting the fglrx drivers and rebooting, Cinammon is forced into fallback mode(basically cinammon crashes). Selecting the xorg drivers and rebooting the computer gets cinammon to boot normally, but once again the running in software rendering mode message pops up. I uninstalled and reinstalled fglrx just in case, but that simply resulted in the same problem.