Re: Headsup: Xserver update switching Intel GPUs from xorg-x11-drv-intel to -modesetting by default coming to rawhide

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On Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 14:24, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11-01-17 12:15, Samuel Rakitničan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > A while back Debian has switched to using the modesetting Xorg driver
> > > rather then the intel Xorg driver for Intel GPUs.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is it possible to configure xserver to use "intel" driver without recompiling it?
> 
> Yes, we're just changing the default, if you drop a 99-local.conf file in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with the following contents:
> 
> Section "OutputClass"
>     Identifier "intel"
>     MatchDriver "i915"
>     Driver "intel"
> EndSection
> 
> Then you should get the intel driver used for any GPUs using the i915
> kernel driver.

How does one do the opposite (i.e. switch to the modesetting driver) on,
say, Fedora 25 running on Haswell? I'd like to test if that works around
a particularly annoying system freeze bug
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98760).

Regards,
Dominik
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