Ubuntu & Debian Abandon Intel X.Org Driver For Most Hardware, Moves To Modesetting DDX

[theghost]

As a side question, which Intel driver is the default in all the other main distros, like Arch, OpenSuse, Fedora ?

[dungeon]

As a side question, which Intel driver is the default in all the other main distros, like Arch, OpenSuse, Fedora ?

Intel's ddx-igpu-pro driver Which someone like and someone hate as usual

And if you have more users who hate it, things like this happen - which is normal and another is just edit xorg.conf and restart X away

[ypnos]

I am on Arch Linux with Skylake, and Sandy Bridge, sadly enough the intel driver sucked for years on the latter, also sucks on the new hardware.

A couple weeks ago I had enough, I simply de-installed the intel driver and restarted X. All the problems I had are gone, including the tenacious tearing in video playing and Chromium scrolling.

I am still in love with intel, as their kernel support is so excellent making this solution possible. A generic userspace driver for decent hardware accelerated graphics, have a look at that nVidia!

[AdamOne]

Not that I fully get the article, but if a team of developers are moving away from reliance on corporations then it is a huge step forward, and unfortunatey something that should have happened years ago.
Companies are the least reliant supporters of anything but net-profit.

[kenjo]

Btw, are you on Yakkety Yak ubuntu?

yes I'am

[dungeon]

Not that I fully get the article, but if a team of developers are moving away from reliance on corporations then it is a huge step forward, and unfortunatey something that should have happened years ago.
Companies are the least reliant supporters of anything but net-profit.

It is nothing like that , just read a maintaner blog post he explain reasoning for this:

The main reason for this was to get rid of chasing after upstream git, because there hasn’t been a stable release in nearly three years and even the latest devel snapshot is over a year and a half old. It also means sharing the glamor 2D acceleration backend with radeon/amdgpu, which is a nice change knowing that the intel SNA backend was constantly slightly broken for some GPU generation(s).

https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/intel-graphics-gen4-and-newer-now-defaults-to-modesetting-driver-on-x/

[starshipeleven]

Intel's ddx-igpu-pro driver Which someone like and someone hate as usual

And if you have more users who hate it, things like this happen - which is normal and another is just edit xorg.conf and restart X away

Yeah, all decisions taken by mantainers must be because they are haters, or because users are haters, nice logic there.
If it was like that none would have adopted systemd or pulseaudio in their distro.

[starshipeleven]

Not that I fully get the article, but if a team of developers are moving away from reliance on corporations then it is a huge step forward, and unfortunatey something that should have happened years ago.
Companies are the least reliant supporters of anything but net-profit.

What you mean for "reliance on corporations"? that intel driver is opensource and anyone can contribute.

[uid313]

I have a Haswell on my desktop computer. I never experienced any issues.
What is all these bugs you're talking about?

[artivision]

Latest Xubuntu + Comptopn on HD4000 = tearing with Modesetting.