Commit 82964d16 authored by K900's avatar K900
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nixos/x11: default to the modesetting driver 

The upstream drivers are very dead:
- nouveau:
   - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/commits/master
   - last meaningful change in August 2020
- ati (aka radeon):
   - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/-/commits/master
   - last meaningful change in April 2020
- amdgpu:
   - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/-/commits/master
   - barely alive, mostly thanks to Valve people

Modesetting isn't even the future, it's the now, especially with Wayland.
We should embrace it.
parent d8c0a920

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2305.section.md

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  [upstream's release notes](https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20221126)

  for more details and available replacements.



- [services.xserver.videoDrivers](options.html#opt-services.xserver.videoDrivers) now defaults to the `modesetting` driver over device-specific ones. The `radeon`, `amdgpu` and `nouveau` drivers are still available, but effectively unmaintained and not recommended for use.



## Other Notable Changes {#sec-release-23.05-notable-changes}



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nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix

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      videoDrivers = mkOption {

        type = types.listOf types.str;

        default = [ "amdgpu" "radeon" "nouveau" "modesetting" "fbdev" ];

        default = [ "modesetting" "fbdev" ];

        example = [

          "nvidia" "nvidiaLegacy390" "nvidiaLegacy340" "nvidiaLegacy304"

          "amdgpu-pro"