I've got a Gigabyte Brix GB-BXi7H-5500. This computer only has HDMI and mini DisplayPort outputs, no VGA. All the Desktop systems I have tried to install (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) have all failed because the screen is totally unreadable, with graphics flashing all over the place and nothing sensible to be seen. I managed to install Ubuntu 14.10 server and installed xinit and twm (yes, those ooollllllddd ways of doing X!). A barely usable system as long as only xterm was used. Trying to run e.g. firefox was a total mess (photo attached). So it's not a window manager issue, nor a GUI toolkit issue: this was absolutely minimal X. Updating linux kernel to 4.0.2 didn't help. Ubuntu 15.04 was no good - triple mouse pointers against a magenta screen.
Fix #32 worked and I can play 1080p movies such as Big Buck Bunny (a bit jerky as no i965 loaded). But it only works once I have the server install done - doesn't help Desktop installs. I've also logged this as bug 90401 on bugs.freedesktop.org as "HDMI i915 driver broken on Gigabyte Brix GB-BXi7H-5500" *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 09 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:63 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64) Linux desktop-14-10 3.16.0-37-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 5 13:45:59 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "Photo of Firefox on Gigabyte 5500" https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1432194/+attachment/4398515/+files/firefox.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1432194 Title: Graphics unstable on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 using Intel HD Graphics 5500 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1432194/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp