---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roberth Sjon?y <roberth.sjonoy at gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Fighting tearing To: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> Tested with SNA. tearing is gone, but the performance of rendering windows in totally unacceptable. Regards, Roberth Sjon?y On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Roberth Sjon?y <roberth.sjonoy at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>
