Hello, I think it's time we adjust the arch profiles' VIDEO_CARDS defaults. By default, users get a whole big list of drivers that are used by a TINY portion of gentooers. For example: profiles/arch/x86/make.defaults: VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults: VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" I don't know other arches well enough to judge what they should have enabled, but these defaults on x86/amd64 don't make much sense in 2015. I would suggest something like: VIDEO_CARDS="intel nouveau radeon" or possibly VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel nouveau radeon vesa" if we want to have those generic drivers available for fallback. But just having those 3 drivers would cover the VAST majority of gentoo users' (non-proprietary) driver setups. And it's not like I'm suggesting removing those older drivers from portage entirely, people who need them can still turn them on. Thanks for your consideration, and sorry if there's already a bug on this elsewhere, I tried my hardest to make sure there wasnt!
I would vote for VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel nouveau radeon vesa"
Good idea. That will probably require a news item though, with Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-drivers[video_cards_...] (with the list of previous defaults) so nobody gets caught by surprise.
(In reply to Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) from comment #1) > I would vote for VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel nouveau radeon vesa" Sounds good to me. (In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #2) > Good idea. That will probably require a news item though, with > Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-drivers[video_cards_...] > (with the list of previous defaults) so nobody gets caught by surprise. Sounds good to me again!
Now that I think about it, for modern AMD cards we will need amdgpu and radeonsi too. VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa"
News item sent to -dev https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/bcff201c163dccc91510f62bcb7eeadb
News item committed: commit fd51bf816dcbc6213a8715442bba9c95b9f41a9d Author: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Apr 24 23:26:37 2016 +0200 Add 2016-04-24-default-video-cards https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=fd51bf816dcbc6213a8715442bba9c95b9f41a9d
commit ec8d2bb8bbd40791cc931d5f3d987adea7362944 Author: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Apr 24 23:36:10 2016 +0200 profiles: adjust VIDEO_CARDS Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561850
