On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 08:18:18PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 19:43, nia <n...@netbsd.org> 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
Maybe GPUs released after intel became abandonware in 2014 or so...
