On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:44:01PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Michael Cree <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +0300, lausg...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > What finally happened to dedicated xf86-video-tga driver? > >> > The last trace for me is > >> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2009/09/msg00011.html > >> > If it's alive, any plans to move its acceleration bits to EXA or provide > >> > Xorg with XAA in Debian? > >> > >> from my initial post. Are you aware of what finally happened with your > >> driver? > > > > All the old legacy video drivers, including tga, have been removed > > from the xserver as no one was maintaining them anymore. > > This is incorrect.
Well, they were removed from Debian, and the statement at the time was that they no longer would be included unless someone stepped up to maintain them. > > I think a recent xserver upload also removed user mode support, so > > we are probably down to only the radeon KMS driver working on Alpha. > > And so is this. Then why did I get a message on upgrade, maybe six months ago, stating this very thing? Cheers Michael.