05.02.2016, 11:24, shirish शिरीष kirjoitti: > Hi all, > 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.
No, modesetting_drv.so is shipped with the xserver. > 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. Next upload of "xorg" will drop -intel from xserver-xorg-video-all, meaning that the default driver for intel hw is modesetting. That's the plan anyway, -intel will still be available if modesetting has issues. But nothing stops us from switching the default again if needed.. -- t