Original summary: modesetting display driver is upstream default, should be Mageia default cf. Bug 31892, https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Talk:Setup_the_graphical_server Upstream the modesetting display driver provided by x11-server-common as the default since server 1.17 11 years ago as of tomorrow. The modesetting display driver is newer technology than at least the GPU-specific drivers x11-driver-video-intel, x11-driver-video-nouveau and x11-driver-video-ati (aka radeon), so default for good reason. IMO it would be better in most cases to not install metapackage x11-driver-video. The only good reason I can think of to include all GPU-specific display drivers is that the modesetting does not support some ancient GPUs, 15 years old or older, e.g. Gen3 and older Intel (915, 945, [Q,G]3x, early Atom; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units?useskin=vector#Gen3] Wikipedia). For most Intel GPUs, modesetting is clearly preferable to x11-driver-video-intel, and also for most NVidia GPUs not supported by the newer still nvidia-current-open-kernel-* and x11-driver-video-nvidia-*, to x11-driver-video-nouveau. Installer could detect ancient GPUs and only then install either metapackage x11-driver-video or the specific driver supporting the detected GPU.
Assigning first to kernel&driver for the expertise
CC: (none) => friAssignee: bugsquad => kernel
Added a short note into https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server#The_modesetting_driver pointing to these two bugs.
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31892
We need to detect if the card support Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" Or add in our tools a way to easy to user enable it