Debian 11 here with LXDE (Xorg + lightdm)
How could I change the driver used by X?
My X is using the default options, I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, so I generate one with the command sudo X -configure :1 and after that copying the contents of /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
After reboot I have a running X on :0 like before (ps auxww | grep Xorg returns ... /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -s 0 :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch), but with a blank screen (no EE in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file). If I remove that /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and reboot I have a normal screen again.
The generated /root/xorg.conf.new is this (removed commented options, some FontPaths and SubSections Display's, for brevity)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Noticed that without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file the output names returned by xrandr have a dash, like DP-1, DP-2 etc and with that file xrandr return those names without a dash: DP1, DP2...
The only change I want to do is replace:
Driver "radeon"
with
Driver "fbdev"
Already tried to remove the xserver-xorg-video-radeon package but it would break my system removing the WM, DE and a lot of other apps.