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and subject line Bug#1117840: fixed in xorg 1:7.7+26
has caused the Debian Bug report #1117840,
regarding xserver-xorg-video-all: Drop xserver-xorg-video-vmware from Depends
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1117840: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1117840
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Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Version: 1:7.7+25
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Please drop xserver-xorg-video-vmware as a dependency of xserver-xorg-video-
all.
xserver-xorg-video-vmware is now obsolete and causes Debian guests to fail to
boot in VMWare and VirtualBox. This is the outcome described in bug #1112670.
Arch Linux started investigating several months ago. [1] The driver is broken
by mesa's deprecation and removal of gallium-xa.
Advice from the upstream X.org issue [2] is to use the modesetting driver or
Wayland, for environments with support. The upstream responder, Ian Forbes, is
from Broadcom and said: "The driver is basically useless without XA and
unlikely to work well, if at all."
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vmware from a VirtualBox Debian guest allows the
guest to boot and operate as normal.
Unfortunately, xserver-xorg-video-vmware is a dependency of xserver-xorg-video-
all, so removing the former package isn't as easy as it should be.
[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xf86-video-
vmware/-/issues/3#note_275921
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware/-/issues/12
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on:
ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu 23.0.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:22.0.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.5.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.18-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.6.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:13.4.0-1
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all recommends:
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.6-1.1
xserver-xorg-video-all suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: xorg
Source-Version: 1:7.7+26
Done: Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xorg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xorg package)
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:13:51 +0300
Source: xorg
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 1:7.7+26
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]>
Closes: 1117840
Changes:
xorg (1:7.7+26) unstable; urgency=medium
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* control: Drop vmware from video-all. (Closes: #1117840)
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