Thanks for this --- indeed, corruption gone! This error I see in the log:
-- May 11 09:19:06 dfly kernel: error: [drm:pid44841:intel_pipe_update_start] *ERROR* Potential atomic update failure on pipe B -- Cheers Peeter -- On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Andrew Slaughter <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to throw out a single data point for the curious, video support for > Skylake on master seems to be working pretty well for me. > > At first there was a lot of tearing and corruption (usable, sort of), but > using "uxa" instead of "sna" acceleration seems to have fixed things so far: > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (taken from the Arch wiki): > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Intel Graphics" > Driver "intel" > Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" > EndSection > > Trying to watch youtube was pretty painful, but it works well for what I do > (lots of text, light web browsing). > > FWIW, using "sna" and the "tearfree" option didn't improve the corruption.
