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 example, or slow mouse movements when Firefox tries to display > "graphic heavy" pages). I have had better performance on a Thinkpad X230. > > 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). > > Someone on #OpenBSD (Zelest) reported encountering the same weird > problems on a Thinkpad X1 (2015, Broadwell, Intel HD Graphics 5500 as > well) when using intel(4). Here's his screenshot: > http://imgur.com/a/c3cvJ
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.
