On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 19:43, nia <[email protected]> wrote: > > After some testing on a Skylake machine, I've concluded > that xf86-video-modesetting is far superior to xf86-video-intel > on that generation of Intel hardware - the most obvious thing > is that modesetting has functional VSync and superior 3D performance > with less tearing. > > Only problem is that we default to intel, modesetting you need > to choose explicitly through xorg.conf. > > I also found similar problems in "radeon", but found that > modesetting would somehow pick a display mode that the monitor > didn't support. Maybe this is actually a drmkms bug - I'm not > sure. > > But maybe modesetting is mature enough (and intel bad enough) > to warrant being the default for Intel GPUs.
Could we start with some form of whitelist to pick modesetting over intel? David
