> I'm trying to install KDE and have noticed that the s3virge driver is missing. > > In aptitude I selected the VESA driver for download and I've also downloaded > outside aptitude > the following driver that is used by wheezy > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-s3virge/xserver-xorg-video-s3virge_1.10.4-5_i386.deb > > Aptitude will be downloading for another hour or so. When it finishes > 1) Is the VESA driver likely to work ? > 2) Will I get better performance with the s3virge driver from wheezy ? >
Aptitude completed, I rebooted and did get a KDE login screen. Without attempting a KDE login, I used ctrl-alt-1 to switch to another console, logged in and looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log This includes the lines [ 43.060] (==) Matched s3virge as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 43.060] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 1 [ 43.060] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2 [ 43.060] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3 showing that the X-server wants the s3virge driver. I tried dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-s3virge_1.10.4-5_i386.deb but the package installation failed as it depends on xorg-video-abi-12 whilst jessie xserver-xorg-core provides xorg-video-abi-14. I switched back to the KDE login screen and attempted a login. KDE didn't start-up properly; I was thrown back to the KDE login screen. My guess is that this is not a VESA driver problem but a problem within KDE. > > I've seen http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2013/09/msg00439.html "Removing > old unmaintained X drivers". > Can the removal of the s3virge driver from Jessie be reversed ? > > > Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
