On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 15:22 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > A while back Debian has switched to using the modesetting Xorg driver > rather then the intel Xorg driver for Intel GPUs. > > There are several good reasons for this, rather then repeating them > I'm just going to point to the Debian announcement: > > https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/intel-graphics-gen4-and-new > er-now-defaults-to-modesetting-driver-on-x/ > > This mail is to let all Fedora users know that starting with > Fedora-26 / rawhide as of today, we are making the same change. > > Note that the xorg-x11-drv-intel package has already been carrying > a Fedora patch to not bind to the GPU on Skylake or newer, even > before Debian announced this, this just makes the same change for > older Intel GPUs. > > For people who are using the now default GNOME3 on Wayland session, > nothing changes, since Xwayland always uses glamor for X > acceleration, just like the modesetting driver. > > If you encounter any issues causes by this change, please file > a bug in bugzilla. > > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > I just want to mention that this change has been pushed (merged) to f25 branch as well (which is not planed I guess), I filled bug #1413251 [1] [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413251 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
