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Today I went down a bit of a wild goose chase caused in part by confusion established by the debian packaging of XOrg. The modesetting_drv.so driver is a video driver, and should be packaged separately as such in something like xserver-xorg-video-kms fulfilling xorg-driver-video. As-is, even if I'm using the modesetting driver, my system wants xorg-driver-video fulfilled and insists on having something like xserver-xorg-video-intel installed. Though I can safely remove /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so and have my Xorg continue to function normally, when I attempt to remove xserver-xorg-video-intel I am faced with this: ``` # apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-intel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libxatracker2 xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware Suggested packages: firmware-amd-graphics xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 Recommended packages: xserver-xorg-video-intel The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg-video-intel* The following NEW packages will be installed: libxatracker2 xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 2,630 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,658 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ``` Thanks, Vito Caputo
