diff --git a/profiles/arch/m68k/package.use.force b/profiles/arch/m68k/package.use.force
index 0430487c6a2f1..068dcfea95c41 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/m68k/package.use.force
+++ b/profiles/arch/m68k/package.use.force
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (2022-01-06)
+# Force Xorg without Mesa. Mesa has been tested on m68k with VirtIO-GPU under
+# QEMU and seems quite broken.
+x11-base/xorg-server minimal
+
 # James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (2021-11-09)
 # dev-perl/Type-Tie fails a test so avoid dependencies.
 dev-perl/Type-Tiny minimal