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Anyone have a fix for screen-tearing in Linux?
submitted 5 years ago by Optimus85 from self.Linux
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[–]Optimus85[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (5 children)
Thanks a lot for taking the time to help. Went to the Linux Mint forum and saw a couple of fixes for my problems. I had no xorg.conf file in etc/X11 so had to sudo cat xorg.conf then ran nvidia-settings as root, checked "force full composition pipeline" for both monitors and saved to xorg.conf(Then got a dialog box. Apparently you need to truncate the metamodes list as X server will fail if the list is greater than 900...)). I think I have things set up correctly in xorg.conf now: Option "metamodes" "DVI-D-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}". We'll see how it works out... :)
[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (0 children)
Good luck! I hope it works
[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (3 children)
Did it work?
[–]Optimus85[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (2 children)
I'm still getting a bit of tearing when watching Netflix but it looks fine system-wide so I'm assuming the issue is with Firefox. Will try with Chromium instead.
[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (1 child)
Get Ungoogled Chromium if you really must go with Chromium. But I expect it's not Firefox per se that's at fault. Does it also occur with VLC?
[–]Optimus85[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (0 children)
I didn't use VLC but yes, it still happens. Like I said, the shell command resolves the issue up to a point but doesn't seem to agree with a dual monitor setup and even though the "force full composition pipeline" option is enabled for both monitors in the xorg.conf, those options are disabled in nvidia-settings after reboot. Anyway, I can't objectively look at the screen at this point and will have to smoke more weed to mitigate the effects. Cheers and thanks!
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[–]Optimus85[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - (5 children)
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