Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-03-02 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-28 21:28 (UTC+0100): > So, modesetting is the real thing? Since about a decade or so ago. It originally was provided as a separate packge, but was moved into the Xorg server .deb as a default for all GPUs for which an appropriate kernel module exists, mainly radeon

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-28 Thread Chris Jölly
On 2/24/25 22:25, Felix Miata wrote: Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-24 21:52 (UTC+0100): modestting is the X display driver required by either the in use Intel 530 GPU or the inactive NVidia GPU. Ok, so modesetting is the X display driver, not how I expected the intel or nouveau driver, righ

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM GMT, Greg wrote: On 2025-02-27, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or did I dream that? The le

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-27, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: >> Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver >> resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or >> did I dream that? > > The lead of the Asahi project (providing sup

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or did I dream that? The lead of the Asahi project (providing support for Apple-silicon Macs) recently resigned. Perh

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> Shouldnt one of intel or nouveau drivers get loaded? > > No, because it's using modeset (for the Intel device at least). > Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or d

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-24 21:52 (UTC+0100): > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P50, which has the following setup: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 i915 is the kernel module (hardware driver) required by your Intel 530

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:52:43 +0100, Chris Jölly wrote: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel >     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1 >     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:

Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Chris Jölly
Hello, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P50, which has the following setup: chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za Graphics:   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 808