Bug 1081449

Summary:	Impossible to get rid of Mesa-dri-nouveau
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Andreas Färber <afaerber>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	afaerber, agraf, dimstar, dmueller, mstaudt, ptesarik, sndirsch
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	armv7
OS:	openSUSE Factory
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Bug Blocks:	1081210

Description Andreas Färber 2018-02-18 03:14:16 UTC

At least on armv7l, despite annoying license warning on each update, it is still impossible to have a Tumbleweed system without Mesa-dri-nouveau. It's possible to remove it via "zypper rm Mesa-dri-nouveau", but the next "zypper dup" brings it back again.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2018-02-19 02:29:35 UTC

Weird. Mesa-dri-nouveau" only gets autoselected when xf86-video-nouveau gets autoselected via Hardware supplements to NVIDIA PCI graphics hardware. I can't imagine we have NVIDIA PCI graphics hardware on ARM, do we?

Maybe for some unknown reason you have xf86-video-nouveau installed? Then this should stop once uninstalling it.

Comment 2 Andreas Färber 2018-02-19 10:56:59 UTC

Confirming that xf86-video-nouveau was installed for some reason - likely not by myself, since I don't have an Nvidia card/chipset on this device.

I don't spot it in the package list of our Kiwi images:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory:ARM/JeOS/packagelist.inc?expand=1
Might've been an indirect dependency?

Let's close it as invalid until we hear that it still gets installed for someone.

Don't discard the possibility of Nvidia PCI cards on Arm though, we've demo'ed that in the past at least on aarch64 systems, and Alex has been implementing ROM code emulation for Tianocore EDK2.