---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roberth Sjon?y <roberth.sjonoy at gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:48 PM Subject: Re: Fighting tearing To: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear Roberth, > > > Am Sonntag, den 09.09.2012, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Roberth Sjon?y: > >> I run Arch Linux, with it's latest x.org and kernel, > > that is xorg-server 1.12.4-1 [1] and linux 3.5.3-1 [2]. Yes. > >> and I have compiled libdrm and the intel driver from git, and I update >> it today. > > Please provide the Git commit hashes with the commit summaries to make > life for readers of your message easier. Ehm, how I do that? What I simply did was a PKGBUILD and built the packages from git with archs packagemanagementsystem. > >> But this is issue exists even with the releases. > > Since when do you experience these issues? > >> With UXA, rendering of the windows in my XFCE4-desktop goes just >> fines, good performance, windows (exspecially GTK+) doesn't hang after >> if I drag them over the screen, but there is lot of small tearing. >> And I want this to go away, I do not use any kind of composition, and >> I am using XFCEs window manager. > > Maybe your monitor causes the tearing? Thats what I am trying to figure out. > >> Here is my xorg.conf >> >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "keyboard" >> Option "XkbLayout" "no" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "intel" >> Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" >> Option "TearFree" "true" >> Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" >> Option "TripleBuffer" "true" >> EndSection >> >> With SNA, the performance of the applications is muc much worse. If I >> just replace UXA with SNA. > > Is the tearing fixed though? I will have to come back on that later need to test, to be sure. > > What happens when you test different Window managers or some live > distribution with other versions? You can even test those by saving the > ISO file on your drive and directly boot those using GRUB 2 [3]. Tried different WMs but I wanna stick with XFCE. > >> Thanks in advance for any help. > > I am sorry for not being more helpful. Maybe the developers have more > ideas. No problem. > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xorg-server/ > [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/linux/ > [3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26294#c13 > > _______________________________________________ > Intel-gfx mailing list > Intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx >
