MATLAB R2023b does not start in hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering mode on Linux on Radeon gpu.

MATLAB R2023b does not start in hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering mode on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 23.10 on Dell Inspiron 5515 with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U and Radeon RX Vega 11. Mesa drivers cannot be loaded correctly. This problem persists on 2023a and other GNU/Linux distributions I have tried: Fedora 38, older Ubuntu versions, Debian 12 etc.

MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
Fontconfig warning: "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/05-reset-dirs-sample.conf", line 6: unknown element "reset-dirs"
Gtk-Message: 11:19:26.605: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
MESA-LOADER: failed to open zink: /usr/lib/dri/zink_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)

Answer 1

[Githin George]

Hello,

I understand you are facing an issue where MATLAB R2023a and R2023b does not start in hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering mode.

Please take a look at the following MATLAB answer, where a similar query has been resolved by creating a symbolic link to the ‘libstdc++.so’ shared object for the unresolved library.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1958469-mesa-loader-fontconfig-ubuntu-23-04?s_tid=answers_rc1-2_p2_MLT

I hope this workaround helps resolve your issue.