[packages/xorg-xserver-server] P: xorg-driver-video-modesetting, xorg-driver-video

Jan Palus atler at pld-linux.org
Thu Nov 24 11:28:05 CET 2016


On 24.11.2016 07:23, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > Suggests is no longer there, but anyway I assume you don't want xserver
> > to provide video driver even though it provides video driver (so user
> > can select some other one). I don't really care so if there are no
> > objections I will replace Provides with Suggests tomorrow.
> 
> Well, modesetting works on any KMS hardware, so I would go with dropping 
> entire virtual xorg-driver-video thing from all drivers.

Except it might provide sluggish performance even in 2D like on many
NVIDIA chips which still lack reclocking in nouveau. I guess it could be
a valid reason to give user a choice of proprietary driver.


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