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The following NEW packages will be installed:
xserver-xorg-legacy
The following packages will be upgraded:
xserver-xorg
But I use open source radeon with KMS (I need to rotate one of my monitors with dual GPUs) and logind is running. Why does apt think I need this wrapper that will run xserver-xorg as SUID root? Is there some other reason why it wants to install?
release: stretch
kernal: 4.9.0-2-amd64
Last edited by sombunall on 2017-05-12 17:13, edited 1 time in total.
[ 83392.518] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[ 83392.518] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[ 83392.518] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 83392.518] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 83392.518] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 83392.518] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 83392.519] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 83392.519] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[ 83392.519] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 83392.519] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 83392.519] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 83392.519] compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.0.2
[ 83392.519] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[ 83392.519] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 83392.519] (II) RADEON(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
-SNIP-
[ 83392.944] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 83392.944] (II) Unloading modesetting
My xorg.conf is nothing special only mouse related stuff. I even tried removing it and no change (didn't expect any). I wonder if this is some kind of dual GPU bug?
I have been running for years without KMS apparently. They must have fixed the screen rotation bug with dual GPUs years ago. Huh. So now dmesg shows that I have KMS. You know I wondered why youtube was a bit choppy on firefox all this time (but still watchable). It doesn't seem choppy now.
What happened was I created a custom grub partition and only have grub installed for 1 OS that controls it... so somehow during that project I neglected KMS.
Only 1 thing however. It still wants to install when I dist-upgrade because the driver must have been there all along it was just disabled in grub. Still need help. I can't find any metapackage googling for xserver-xorg-legacy
(II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
(II) Unloading modesetting
Looks like xorg always unloads the module even when KMS is enabled. My KMS was always on for xorg, just not in the TTY console without that grub line. I guess I hallucinated firefox was better.