[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vesa 2.5.0

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Sep 10 22:13:16 UTC 2020


This release rolls up a few minor bug fixes since 2.4.0. We now refuse
to run on machines with UEFI firmware (on Linux only, patches welcome
for other OSes) since it won't work in the general case and you
probably have a kernel framebuffer driver running already. We also only
attempt to use 24bpp if the alternative would be pseudocolor, but note
that since xserver 1.20 24bpp will not work at all. If you'd like to
fix that case, please note that it is filed as issue #4:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vesa/-/issues/4

We also notice several cases of running on emulated GPUs, in which case
the shadow framebuffer is disabled by default to improve performance by
reducing the number of copies.

All users are recommended to upgrade, ideally to a better video card
and/or driver.

Full changelog:

Adam Jackson (5):
      Newline-terminate a few error messages
      Refuse to run on UEFI machines
      Try harder to avoid 24bpp
      Disable shadow by default on known-virtual GPUs
      vesa 2.5.0

Alan Coopersmith (2):
      Update README for gitlab migration
      Update configure.ac bug URL for gitlab migration

Benjamin Tissoires (1):
      Refuse to run on UEFI machines running older kernels

git tag: xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0

https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2
MD5:  e7cf9705b3a60365e5c251a604bc72e9  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2
SHA1: 6b604c9284fe004723a59651ae2628b2b7e63b1e  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2
SHA256: 1f1624f3c73906801ad1bc98335a2cb5676a7a4d18e5374d9a1d18464e54c659  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2
SHA512: 36fd921f54f33eb25966b5f9ea1e1b3e9009965c012c8b9c676686b472111719921b80cf62dafc746058878253e21f0ef341a2ff2d650df22ca1e35e81716a8b  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2
PGP:  https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2.sig

https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz
MD5:  1cc6d82b149d3c2cf900e7771e154e1a  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz
SHA1: 62ae49bf376c8b0652ddf320bb0f1c856dd0d56b  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz
SHA256: be10771dbfdec9e8c4f1b56653b0e6b05b3e5f79c26507e3184ad27b4f00c09d  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz
SHA512: 446344bd7fb6f1f39561b5be1c7eaf95a8cb9804c8d292c4f899bfe2099c68d2480642205d8ba5338f7b7dda2830c0c5a9383973fd58a915611b78b15cc553c9  xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz
PGP:  https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.gz.sig

- ajax



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