On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Michael Cree <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:44:01PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Michael Cree <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:33:34PM +0300, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > What finally happened to dedicated xf86-video-tga driver? >> >> > The last trace for me is >> >> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2009/09/msg00011.html >> >> > If it's alive, any plans to move its acceleration bits to EXA or >> >> > provide Xorg with XAA in Debian? >> >> >> >> from my initial post. Are you aware of what finally happened with your >> >> driver? >> > >> > All the old legacy video drivers, including tga, have been removed >> > from the xserver as no one was maintaining them anymore. >> >> This is incorrect. > > Well, they were removed from Debian, and the statement at the time > was that they no longer would be included unless someone stepped up > to maintain them. > >> > I think a recent xserver upload also removed user mode support, so >> > we are probably down to only the radeon KMS driver working on Alpha. >> >> And so is this. > > Then why did I get a message on upgrade, maybe six months ago, stating > this very thing?
Maybe it's a Debian-specific change, like the previous case. (Maybe I misunderstood and you were talking specifically about Debian all along).
