Notes on xserver-xorg-video-intel
Hi everyone,
I'd just wanted to say two words on the xserver-xorg-video-intel
driver's description. I don't follow the list, so please CC me in
replies.
I used a Broadwell with HD5500 within several laptop brands (hp,
lenovo), but the built-in modesetting driver is so buggy it's unusable.
Just to give you an idea of the kind of problems you might have, if you
connect a second output, the screen flickers from where the cursor is
and downwards. Occasional video corruption is common with just one
output (although less severe when coupled with the 4.5-rc4 kernel) and
other random problems.
Long story short, I couldn't use the modesetting driver (yet). The
"deprecated" driver on the other hand works mostly fine.
To be fair the modesetting driver does work on a haswell... now.
Although the description has been rephrased, I just wanted to vent some
steam on the endless stream of small glitches the intel drivers have.
Newest never meant usable as far as intel drivers went in the last 5+
years.
As soon as one acceleration method seem to reach maturity (as in: it
*almost* works correctly) it gets replaced by a new and fancy method
that doesn't. By the time it reaches maturity, I'm flipping to a new
moving target...
Oh well.
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