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?

My video chipset is

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation IvyBridge GT2 [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09)

And the only card-selection configuration I've done was to set VIDEO_CARDS="intel" in make.conf.

--
Grant

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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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On Monday, 14 March 2022 18:07:54 CET 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've heard it's not necessarily needed, there's some information about it here which I think should also apply to Gentoo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Installation

-Marco
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On 2022-03-14, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:

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.

I'll give that a go the next time I'm in the office (which is where
the machine in question lives). I've got to remember to drag a loptop
along with me so that if X doesn't come up I can still Google for
help. From what I've seen on both Gentoo and Arch wiki's I believe it
should "just work". But I know that having no other web access besides
my phone will make it fail...

--
Grant

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:24:02 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

I bit the bullet, let it depclean and rebooted.

I'll give that a go the next time I'm in the office (which is where
the machine in question lives). I've got to remember to drag a loptop
along with me so that if X doesn't come up I can still Google for
help. From what I've seen on both Gentoo and Arch wiki's I believe it
should "just work". But I know that having no other web access besides
my phone will make it fail...

If X doesn't come up, simply re-emerge xf86-video-intel. That won't take
long because you will obviously have quickpkg'd it before depcleaning...


--
Neil Bothwick

"There are no stupid questions, just too many inquisitive idiots."


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On 2022-03-15, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:

If X doesn't come up, simply re-emerge xf86-video-intel. That won't take
long because you will obviously have quickpkg'd it before depcleaning...

You would think so. And you would think that would fix it.

--
Grant

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I was under the impression that xf86-video-intel was for older video Intel
sets only...


Lee 😎

On Mar 15, 2022 at 6:33 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
wrote:

On 2022-03-15, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:

If X doesn't come up, simply re-emerge xf86-video-intel. That won't take
long because you will obviously have quickpkg'd it before depcleaning...

You would think so. And you would think that would fix it.

--
Grant

<div id="edo-message"><div><div>I was under the impression that xf86-video-intel was for older video Intel sets only...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="edo-signature"><pre>Lee 😎</pre></div></div></div><div id="edo-original"><div><
blockquote type="cite" style="margin:1ex 0 0 0!important;border-left:1px #ccc solid!important;padding-left:0.4ex!important"><div id="edo-meta">On Mar 15, 2022 at 6:33 PM, Grant Edwards &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">grant.b.edwards@gmail.
com</a>&gt; wrote: <br><br></div><pre>On 2022-03-15, Neil Bothwick &lt;neil@<a href="digimed.co.uk">digimed.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:

<br>&gt; If X doesn&#39;t come up, simply re-emerge xf86-video-intel. That won&#39;t take
<br>&gt; long because you will obviously have quickpkg&#39;d it before depcleaning...

<br>You would think so. And you would think that would fix it.

<br>--
<br>Grant








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On 2022-03-15, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:

I bit the bullet, let it depclean and rebooted.

I'll give that a go the next time I'm in the office (which is where
the machine in question lives).

It _almost_ "just worked". The names of the displays changed, so I had
to modify my xinit/openbox startup file according to get things
arranged correctly.

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