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modesetting display driver is upstream default
Upstream the modesetting display driver provided by x11-server-common is the default. It's newer technology than at least the GPU-specific drivers x11-driver-video-intel, x11-driver-video-nouveau and x11-driver-video-ati (aka radeon), so default for good reason. IMO it would be better in most cases to not install metapackage x11-driver-video. The only good reason I can think of to include all GPU-specific display drivers is that the modesetting does not support some ancient GPUs, 15 years old or older, e.g. Gen3 and older Intel (915, 945, [Q,G]3x, early Atom; [2] Wikipedia). For most Intel GPUs, modesetting is clearly preferable to x11-driver-video-intel, and also for most NVidia GPUs not supported by the newer still nvidia-current-open-kernel-* and x11-driver-video-nvidia-*, to x11-driver-video-nouveau.
morgano (talk) 16:19, 29 January 2026 (UTC) :
Hi!
This sounds like a subject suitable to discuss in a bug set to kernel & drivers maintainers.
Best Regards
/Morgan
