Hi all, In today's updates, saw this in the changelog -
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.99.917+git20160127-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream snapshot. * control: Document build-depends for dri3info and tests, benchmarks. * control: Update description to mention that this driver is deprecated in favor of -modesetting. * rules: Use upstream-unstable branch to build a snapshot tarball. * control: Add libxss-dev to build-depends for intel-virtual-output. -- Timo Aaltonen <tjaal...@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:56:38 +0200 * control: Update description to mention that this driver is deprecated in favor of -modesetting. Saw the same mentioned in the long description of the package . [$] aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-intel [14:47:12] Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2:2.99.917+git20160127-1+b1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 3,192 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.38), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.25), libpciaccess0 (>= 0.8.0+git20071002), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.30.0), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-dri2-0, libxcb-dri3-0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb-util0 (>= 0.3.8), libxcb1, libxcursor1 (>1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2), libxrender1, libxshmfence1, libxss1, libxtst6, libxv1, libxvmc1, xorg-video-abi-20, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.17.99.902) Provides: xorg-driver-video Description: X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver This package provides the driver for the Intel i8xx and i9xx family of chipsets, including i810, i815, i830, i845, i855, i865, i915, i945 and i965 series chips. This package also provides XvMC (XVideo Motion Compensation) drivers for i810/i815 and i9xx and newer chipsets. This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-intel driver module. This driver is deprecated in favor of the server builtin modesetting driver. Homepage: http://www.x.org/ Tags: admin::hardware, hardware::video, implemented-in::c, role::plugin, use::driver, x11::xserver Having taken a look at the modesetting driver which is a virtual package, it seems the intel driver is now embedded into xserver-xorg-core itself. [$] aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-modesetting No current or candidate version found for xserver-xorg-video-modesetting Package: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting State: not a real package Provided by: xserver-xorg-core (2:1.18.0-3) Now does it mean that I should be purging this driver altogether or are there still some dependencies which need to be fixed before this can be purged ? Look forward to knowing more. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8