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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:02:12PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Richard Bradfield <bradfier@×××××.me> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>>> Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver |
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>>> versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the |
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>>> upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between |
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>>> zero and one person to use. |
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>>> ... |
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>>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting |
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>> I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for |
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>> this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for |
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>> which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with |
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>> xf86-video-modesetting. |
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>You must not have updated in quite a while if it's still installed on |
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>your system. The driver has been included in the xserver since 1.17 |
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>(with the appropriate blocker). |
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>The driver's not going away, just the separate package :) |
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You would be correct! Have you any idea how enjoyable `emerge --update` |
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is on an Atom N2600? :) |
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I've gone ahead and updated the machine to Xorg 1.19.5, and depclean |
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removed the old separate package, thanks for the hint! |
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