On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Steve Talbott <ste...@natureinstitute.org> wrote: > Miles O'Neal wrote: >> >> I would look into a new video driver. Which driver were you using? > > Nouveau, last updated a year ago in January. I have now found this in the > 7.4 release notes (should have looked before!): > > "The default DDX driver has changed to be xf86-video-modesetting. > The previous defaults were xf86-video-nouveau (Nvidia hardware) > and xf86-video-intel (Intel hardware)." > > Sorry for my ignorance, but is there a way at the boot command to > restore the old default? Or some other better approach?
Please bottom-post. Not at boot but, if "xorg-x11-drv-intel-..." is still installed, you can create an X snippet in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/" to specify that "intel_drv.so" be loaded. FYI, Ubuntu switched almost two years ago. Post by maintainer: https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/intel-graphics-gen4-and-newer-now-defaults-to-modesetting-driver-on-x/