Bug 1411991

Summary: X session does not work without 'xorg-x11-drv-intel' in a Intel G33 (Gen 2?, i915?) GPU.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Diogo Campos <diogocamposwd>
Component: kernelAssignee: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description Diogo Campos 2017-01-10 23:02:41 UTC 
Created attachment 1239269 [details]
glxinfo output (under the Wayland session)

# Description of problem:

As a preparation for this[1], I tried to remove the 'xorg-x11-drv-intel' package from a Fedora Workstation 25 system running in a Intel G33 (Gen 2?, i915?) GPU (Intel Pentium E5700 CPU)...

The result was a non-working login to a X session (system goes back to GDM after ~1 second).

Also keep in mind the Wayland session is slower (unaccelerated) than the X session in this hardware.

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/AUPYPJMFJZMHPEKN24LBABZKIEOV4NU5/


# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel 4.8.15-300.fc25
mesa-dri-drivers 13.0.3-1.fc25
xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.19.0-3.fc25
Comment 1 Diogo Campos 2017-01-10 23:04:28 UTC 
Created attachment 1239270 [details]
'journalctl -b' output (under the Wayland session)
Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2017-01-11 09:09:25 UTC 
Hi,

I see now that I forgot to mention (other then a link to the Debian blog post) that this is only for gen4 and newer Intel GPUs. Sorry for the confusion. So no need to worry about your gen2 GPU that will keep using the xorg-x11-drv-intel driver.

I've updated my blog post on this, adding the following line: "The "for all recent Intel GPUs" in the subject of this blog post in practice means that we're making this change for gen4 and newer Intel GPUs."

Unfortunately retro-actively changing email is harder.

Regards,

Hans
Comment 3 Diogo Campos 2017-01-11 15:11:18 UTC 
(In reply to Hans de Goede from comment #2)
> (other then a link to the Debian blog post)

Oops. I could have noticed that. My bad.
Thank you.