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Bug#779515: Should enable the qxl kernel driver when installed



On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 00:24 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> reassign 779515 linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64
> severity 779515 important
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:47:54 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
>  > I've enabled the kernel's qxl driver, but disabled by default so that
>  > it doesn't conflict with wheezy's version of xserver-xorg-video-qxl.
>  >
>  > Please install a modprobe configuration file with the line:
>  >
>  > options qxl modeset=1
>  >
>  > (When I tried this on a VM host with virt-manager and QEMU from sid,
>  > the qxl driver complained of missing features, so KMS still didn't
>  > work. However, the fall-back to UMS still worked.)
> 
> Shouldn't the qxl kernel module be enabled by default in unstable now 
> that the xserver-xorg-video-qxl package has been updated?
[...]

Only if xserver-xorg-video-qxl in jessie works properly with KMS.  Is
that the case?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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