I noticed that the vesa and fbdev X.org drivers were recently retired from Rawhide. There appears to be no Change for this. The commit messages for the retirements refer to this old Change:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers#Detailed_Description but that Change was for Fedora 36, and was considered "completed" at the time with no removal of any X.org drivers. The scope of that Change says nothing about retiring X.org drivers. This has had at least one substantial impact that somebody noticed: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BU46CQS64XWVDANVXLXUE3KVLZLWPSG5/ booting with 'nomodeset', which has decades of history as a standard workaround for having some kind of issue with the native driver for your hardware, no longer works, it seems. To me this is a significant change which maybe should be a Change, not just slipped in with reference to a Change from six releases ago which did not have this in its scope. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
