On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:07:54 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I was a bit startled thos morning when emerge --depclean wanted to > remove xf86-video-intel. I presume this is a result of the switch to > the "built in" modesetting driver? And there are no corresponding Xorg > config changes that need to be made?
I bit the bullet, let it depclean and rebooted. The desktp came up as usual but there was a warning in the log about not being able to load the intel module [ 13.920] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 13.920] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1 [ 13.920] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2 [ 13.920] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3 [ 13.920] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout [ 13.920] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 13.920] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel [ 13.920] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0) [ 13.920] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [ 13.920] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so [ 13.935] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 13.935] compiled for 1.21.1.3, module version = 1.21.1 [ 13.935] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 13.935] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2 [ 13.935] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" [ 13.935] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev [ 13.935] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) [ 13.935] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" [ 13.935] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so [ 13.937] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 13.937] compiled for 1.21.1.3, module version = 2.5.0 [ 13.937] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 13.937] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2 [ 13.937] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms [ 13.937] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa [ 13.943] (II) modeset(0): using drv /dev/dri/card0 [ 13.943] (II) modeset(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section > > My video chipset is > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation IvyBridge GT2 > [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09) I have: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09) > And the only card-selection configuration I've done was to set > VIDEO_CARDS="intel" in make.conf. ditto -- Neil Bothwick Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel.
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