Bug#1117840: xserver-xorg-video-all: Drop xserver-xorg-video-vmware from Depends
Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Version: 1:7.7+25
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Please drop xserver-xorg-video-vmware as a dependency of xserver-xorg-video-
all.
xserver-xorg-video-vmware is now obsolete and causes Debian guests to fail to
boot in VMWare and VirtualBox. This is the outcome described in bug #1112670.
Arch Linux started investigating several months ago. [1] The driver is broken
by mesa's deprecation and removal of gallium-xa.
Advice from the upstream X.org issue [2] is to use the modesetting driver or
Wayland, for environments with support. The upstream responder, Ian Forbes, is
from Broadcom and said: "The driver is basically useless without XA and
unlikely to work well, if at all."
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vmware from a VirtualBox Debian guest allows the
guest to boot and operate as normal.
Unfortunately, xserver-xorg-video-vmware is a dependency of xserver-xorg-video-
all, so removing the former package isn't as easy as it should be.
[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xf86-video-
vmware/-/issues/3#note_275921
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware/-/issues/12
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on:
ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu 23.0.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:22.0.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.5.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.18-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.6.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:13.4.0-1
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all recommends:
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.6-1.1
xserver-xorg-video-all suggests no packages.
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