intel xorg video driver in Debian and x240 with Dell U3011

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

Hi,

I think it's important that I share a a few words to let
you know about my bad experience with the current state of
Intel video drivers in Debian.

I have a Lenovo x240 with Intel HD4400 driving a Dell U3011
monitor.

* The driver in Jessie was causing troubles with the monitor.
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81816
  I've been told to upgrade my driver, because it was not
  supporting my video card.
* When I did upgrade the driver to latest Debian experimental
  (2:2.99.914-1~exp1), it fixed my problems, but I started
  experiencing issues where my gnome terminals did not refresh
  at every keystroke. Downgrading the gnome terminal to wheezy
  did not help, and the only thing that had changed was the
  Intel video driver,

Finally, I compiled and installed the latest official driver
release from Intel (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads)
2014Q2 Intel Graphics Stack Release (version 2.99.911),
and everything works like a charm since then.

If I look at Ubuntu, their current stable release is
shipping with "2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1".

I'm wondering why it's not possible to find a Debian package
of the latest "Intel Graphics Stack Release" in any of Debian
wheezy/jessie/sid/experimental ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
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