Re: which server builtin modesetting driver for intel ?

[Timo Aaltonen]

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

which server builtin modesetting driver for intel ?

[shirish शिरीष]

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   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 
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.
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