Hi,

In xenocara, we still build a number of video drivers for very old
hardware, that is mostly useless. For AGP, I don't have a working
motherboard to test the cards I still have.
I also still have a few PCI cards for some of them, but most of them
are dead, or don't work as primary display with modern BIOSes.

And most important, none of these old cards has enough RAM to run any
kind of modern 16 or 32 bpp X at a decent resolution. (And the xserver
version 1.20 has dropped support for 24 bits per pixel modes).

So rather that try to blindly fix the issues with these drivers I'd
rather remove them. This is the list of candidates for removing.

If you're still using a machine with a graphics card supported by one
of these, please speak up, otherwise they are going to be removed:

xf86-video-ark
xf86-video-chips
xf86-video-glint
xf86-video-i128
xf86-video-i740
xf86-video-neomagic
xf86-video-rendition
xf86-video-s3
xf86-video-s3virge
xf86-video-savage
xf86-video-sis
xf86-video-tdfx
xf86-video-trident
xf86-video-tseng
xf86-video-voodoo

For now, we would keep the following non drm/kms drivers:

xf86-video-ast
xf86-video-cirrus
xf86-video-dummy
xf86-video-mach64
xf86-video-mga
xf86-video-nv
xf86-video-openchrome
xf86-video-r128
xf86-video-siliconmotion
xf86-video-vesa
xf86-video-vmware
xf86-video-wsfb
xf86-video-wsudl

and on i386 only:

xf86-video-geode

--
Matthieu Herrb

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