1xorg-server (2:1.18.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium 2 3 X now defaults to using built-in modesetting video driver on Intel 4 hardware which is "4th gen GMA" and newer, so roughly speaking on hardware 5 from 2007 and up. If this triggers new bugs on your hw, please file them 6 against the xserver. 7 8 Continuing to use the -intel driver is possible by dropping the template 9 xorg.conf to /etc/X11: 10 11 # cp /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xorg.conf /etc/X11 12 13 -- Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:28:05 +0300 14 15xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium 16 17 The Xorg server is no longer setuid root by default. This change reduces the 18 risk of privilege escalation due to X server bugs, but has some side effects: 19 20 * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd 21 * it relies on a kernel video driver (so the userspace component doesn't 22 touch the hardware directly) 23 * it needs X to run on the virtual console (VT) it was started from 24 * it changes the location for storing the Xorg log from /var/log/ to 25 ~/.local/share/xorg/ 26 27 On systems where those are not available, the new xserver-xorg-legacy package 28 is needed to allow X to run with elevated privileges. See the 29 Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for configuration details. 30 31 -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:11 +0000 32