[PATCH] xfree86: Add "modesetting" to list of fallback drivers

Søren Sandmann soren.sandmann at gmail.com
Fri May 30 13:48:51 PDT 2014


Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> writes:

>> To make X -configure work properly, the output of fixup_video_driver_list()
>> should be in order of preference. Otherwise, the config file may use
>> the incorrect driver for some devices.
>>
>> In particular, the drivers that work for all (or many) devices need to be
>> last in the list. Since the modesetting driver works for many devices,
>> it needs to be considered a fallback driver.
>>
>
> Surely this should come before fbdev and vesa though? Seems like it'd
> basically never get used as-is ...

Fine by me.


Søren


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