Bug#779515: Should enable the qxl kernel driver when installed
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?
I quickly tested with stretch kernel and xserver-xorg-video-qxl and it
seems to work, well actually now that Xserver is running without root
rights, kernel qxl driver is actually required, X is not starting otherwise.
Could you please revert your patch and enable qxl by default when needed?
Cheers,
Laurent Bigonville
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