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. -- no debconf information
