Re: Weird graphic problems with intel(4) on a Thinkpad X250

2016-08-11 Thread Lionel Riem
On 11.08.2016 10:34, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: I have not tried 5.9 but my x250 works really well with -current and 6.0. I suppose there have been fixes in broadwell support since 5.9. I just upgraded to -current, and, indeed, it now works very well. Thanks!

Re: Weird graphic problems with intel(4) on a Thinkpad X250

2016-08-11 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Lionel Riem wrote: > Hello, > > I have 5.9 installed on a Thinkpad X250 (Broadwell, Intel HD Graphics > 5500). On this machine, by default, Xorg uses modesetting(4) and vesa(4) > instead of intel(4). The performance is not great (stuttering videos, > for

Re: Weird graphic problems with intel(4) on a Thinkpad X250

2016-08-11 Thread ludovic coues
2016-08-11 9:56 GMT+02:00 Lionel Riem : > When forcing Xorg to use intel(4) instead, I get really weird problems: > http://imgur.com/a/KEYzb (this is supposed to be i3 with Firefox open). > > > Is it a bug? Are we doing something wrong? Thanks for your help. > You mean something

Weird graphic problems with intel(4) on a Thinkpad X250

2016-08-11 Thread Lionel Riem
Hello, I have 5.9 installed on a Thinkpad X250 (Broadwell, Intel HD Graphics 5500). On this machine, by default, Xorg uses modesetting(4) and vesa(4) instead of intel(4). The performance is not great (stuttering videos, for example, or slow mouse movements when Firefox tries to display "graphic