On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 15:22 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A while back Debian has switched to using the modesetting Xorg driver
> rather then the intel Xorg driver for Intel GPUs.
> 
> There are several good reasons for this, rather then repeating them
> I'm just going to point to the Debian announcement:
> 
> https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/intel-graphics-gen4-and-new
> er-now-defaults-to-modesetting-driver-on-x/
> 
> This mail is to let all Fedora users know that starting with
> Fedora-26 / rawhide as of today, we are making the same change.
> 
> Note that the xorg-x11-drv-intel package has already been carrying
> a Fedora patch to not bind to the GPU on Skylake or newer, even
> before Debian announced this, this just makes the same change for
> older Intel GPUs.
> 
> For people who are using the now default GNOME3 on Wayland session,
> nothing changes, since Xwayland always uses glamor for X
> acceleration, just like the modesetting driver.
> 
> If you encounter any issues causes by this change, please file
> a bug in bugzilla.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> _______________________________________________
> 

I just want to mention that this change has been pushed (merged) to f25
branch as well (which is not planed I guess), I filled bug #1413251 [1]


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413251
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