[Bug 109618] TearFree stops working at random with DRI3, works fine with DRI2

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109618

--- Comment #16 from Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> ---
(In reply to Sultan Alsawaf from comment #15)
> Hi Martin,
> 
> This issue occurs immediately when I maximize a video in Chromium, and it
> doesn't disappear until I restart X.

Thanks for the information!

> 
> I am indeed using DRI2 for the meantime, and I'm on the xf86-video-intel
> driver because the modesetting driver wasn't so stable for me last I tried
> it :-)

Interesting, when was that?

> 
> It's nice having tear-free graphics without the overhead of a composited
> window manager; I've found even the "lightest" of composited window managers
> to be more resource-heavy (and buggy!) than I'm willing to bear, so I am a
> huge fan of the TearFree feature.

I get your point. This is why I have invested some time to implement TearFree
on modesetting (not done yet). However, for me, one of the most important
advantage of not running with a compositor is the lower latency... but the
tearfree feature goes against that. X11 is just not meant for provide a
low-latency tear-free environment.

Have you considered using sway by the way? This should be extremely light,
tearfree and stable.

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