Hi,
* R9mwaeq [Tue Feb 19, 2019 at 01:31:57PM +0000]:
The Debian package 'xserver-xorg-video-intel' is missing from the full 64 bit 2018-12 GRML disto.
If your device has an Intel graphics card and you can't boot to X then installing the missing package will fix the problem:
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Thanks for reporting this. The xserver-xorg-video-intel package should be relevant only for quite old hardware though, quoting from its package description:
| The use of this driver is discouraged if your hw is new enough (ca. | 2007 and newer). You can try uninstalling this driver and let the | server use it's builtin modesetting driver instead.
What hardware do you use where you depend on this package? What's the error message you get when starting X without having xserver-xorg-video-intel present?
The 64 bit & 32 small distros are also both missing Intel drivers, however restoring the package will incur an additional 240 MB of dependencies asscociatted with it.
grml-small intentionally don't ship any X.org packages, so that's kind of expected :) (Also see https://grml.org/faq/#grmlsmall )
Listing this as a known bug on the GRML web site would have been very helpful. Strangely I recently had a similar problem with another Debian Linux distro uprgrade, perhaps this is a Debian issue rather than a GRML bug.
We don't ship xserver-xorg-video-intel by intention, since it *should* not be relevant. If it's relevant for certain hardware still being present nowadays and doesn't cause any unwanted side-effects, we could re-consider shipping it though.
Anyways, now everything is sweet.
Excellent :)
Thanks for your feedback and regards, -mika-