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.
