Miguel A. Vallejo composed on 2020-02-11 20:07 (UTC+0100): > What are your recommendations / experiences?
Nothing like yours or all those bug reports. I've been using Intel, Nvidia and AMD/ATI since over 15 years ago, but more with Intel than the others in recent years, and across several distros other than just Debian. This PC is a (MSI) Haswell, with HD Graphics 4400 (but only openSUSE). I have two with HD Graphics 630 and Buster on Kaby Lake, i3-7100t and G4600. On neither of these latter two are any cmdline options re graphics necessary, nor is anything in xorg.conf*. My trouble with Intel to the exclusion of the other two brands disappeared what now seems like a decade or more. All mine supported by the modesetting DDX are using it. The two Kaby Lake GPUs are supporting 3 displays simultaneously on stock Buster 4.19 kernels. I spend very little time running Chrom*. Mostly I use latest SeaMonkey, Firefox ESR, and New (Pale) Moon. I don't have any Debian installations running KDE, only TDE (current, next, & devel) and IceWM on those. And, I do no virtualization except for DOS on an OS/2 derivative. I do get no working Xorg from some installations, but those are mostly worked around by not disabling compositing globally in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. OTOH, support forums I frequent seem to have far more complaints about NVidia than the other two combined, out of proportion to each's installed base, very roughly split between tainting driver installation, and maintenance (laptop and desktop), and multi-GPU problems (Optimus laptops mostly). If you want a solution with absence of reverse-engineering or kernel tainting, I suggest keeping after the devs and making sure to answer any requests you might get there promptly in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/673, and offer additional testing and logs on the intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list referencing that bug report. This has obviously been going on much too long for (against) you. :-( Until this thread and that bug report, I was completely unaware of the extent of recent Intel GPU complaints that that bug represents. Have you ever run several hours (4-10, or overnight) of memtest86 (not memtest86+)? Intel GPUs all run on shared RAM. All mine are running paired RAM sticks in dual channel, and with equally balanced CAS ratings, e.g. 15-15-15-36 or 17-17-17-39 vs. 15-17-17-35 or 16-15-15-37. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
